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History Teaching to Modern Students
The way teaching history and social sciences to students of the modern era has to undergo a change. There is no place for the old style of books and hundreds of pages of history cramped into one to two text books. Students are no longer the types of students that used to exist decades ago times have changed and so has the pattern and tendency to learn.
Sam Wineburg, the Professor of Educational Psychology and Adjunct Professor of History, University of Washington, Seattle, says that the education system and the teachers have been trying to rewrite textbooks and hoping that by doing so they would change how history is learned and taught by the to the students. But they are wrong as many realize that the means and ways of teaching and learning have changed. Wineburg claims that the problems is not with hat is in the text books but the very idea of text books that are no longer valid and the only means of learning.
Experts of education claim that whether it was the beginning of the twentieth century or the present era, no human mind could have possibly retained the information crammed into these books that have been the supposed backbone of teaching and learning history over the last century.
Therefore new means and ways of imparting...
Wineburg says: "but facts are important, so we'd better get used to this one: Today's youths get their history from the screen. From MTV clips to C-SPAN coverage, from 24-hour programming on the History Channel to the design-your-own-history curriculum of the Internet, the past comes at today's teens from every quarter."
He claims that while much of the content in such forms and format could by 'junk', but it is this junk that attracts the attention of student and with attracting attentions of the student it would not be possible to impart education especially history which is often considered to be boring subject.
Citing the growing influence of the audio visual media, Wineburg says that students when asked about what they knew about Vietnam War, the students did not quote or refer to any text book or history book or to anything learned in school but more than half of the students described what they knew about the Vietnam war referring to the movie "Forrest Gump" and how the Vietnam war was depicted the movie.
In their 'The Push for Inclusive Classrooms and the Impact of Social Studies Design and Delivery', authors Darren W. Minarik and Timothy Lintner say that in the modern days, the teachers are being…
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