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"http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/42.2/fallace.html From The History Teacher Vol. 42, Issue 2. Viewed February 1, 2010 2:50 EST Presented online in association with the History Cooperative. http://www.historycooperative.org Historiography and Teacher Education: Reflections on an Experimental Course Thomas D. Fallace University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia IN RECENT YEARS, professional historians have encouraged policy makers to increase content requirements in history in hopes of improving the overall teaching of history in American schools. Support for such proposals has come from many sources. The origins of this movement can be traced to the 1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education's Nation at Risk report, which declared that the ignorance of American youth was at a crisis level. E. D. Hirsch reiterated this concern in his best-selling Cultural Literacy, in which he also decried the lack of content knowledge of American students. Further studies, such as Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn's What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? and the Bradley Commission's Historical Literacy, argued that students were particularly deficient in historical knowledge. As a result, in the 1990s, many historians and policy makers endorsed a strengthening of history teacher requirements and the addition of expanded required historical content in the curriculum.1 1 In the 1980s and 1990s, new advances in cognitive and learning theory also supported increased disciplinary knowledge for teachers. In 1987, Lee Shulman's influential article, "Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of a New Reform," introduced the concept of pedagogical content knowledge-"a special amalgam of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers, their own special form of professional understanding."2 Shulman argued that effective history teachers draw upon techniques and understandings unique to the discipline, not upon a generic set of instructional tools t

"First world war: an imperial bloodbath that's a warning, not a noble cause Tory claims that 1914 was a fight for freedom are absurd - but then history wars are about the future as much as the past"

"A short history of NATO It is often said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union. This is only partially true. In fact, the Alliance's creation was part of a broader effort to serve three purposes: deterring Soviet expansionism, forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence on the continent, and encouraging European political integration."

The British A level topics are similar to IB ones for the 20th century. This directory of Web sites is a broad listing of resources.

"arr writes: "Gove and his advisers - either through stupidity or mischievousness - failed to place me, my website, or the lesson into its appropriate context. His criticisms betray a lack of knowledge, understanding, and interpretation that would make a GCSE history student blush with shame.""

"has a lesson plan in which iGCSE students depict the rise of Hitler as a Mr Men story" Could be used alongside the BBC article to compare and contrast sources as well. 

"Mao was like a father to me, says the Dalai Lama"

"Was Mao Really a Monster: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday "Mao: The Unknown Story""

"This book is aimed at newcomers to the field of logical reasoning, particularly those who, to borrow a phrase from Pascal, are so made that they understand best through visuals. I have selected a small set of common errors in reasoning and visualized them using memorable illustrations that are supplemented with lots of examples. The hope is that the reader will learn from these pages some of the most common pitfalls in arguments and be able to identify and avoid them in practice."

Great resource for discussion about a contemporary single party state- 

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"Look back with angst A century on, there are uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the outbreak of the first world war"

"China's Long March falls short Two British men, Andy McEwen and Ed Jocelyn, have retraced the steps of Mao Zedong's Red Army on its epic Long March. Ed told BBC News Online about their journey, which was a little shorter than expected."

I use Diigo every day, it is invaluable to me. Over the years I have built up quite a collection. Here are all the items tagged "ibhistory"

This is a collection of online books for the study of History.

Historian: Alexander Chubarov The Fragile Empire: A History of Imperial Russia Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity