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The book is a thoughtful (although sometimes polemic) presentation on why teachers should teach the process of how history is written as well and cover meaningful content. This is a book all teachers and prospective teachers should read.
James loewen argues for more thoughtful and deliberate units that call for analysis and connections between concepts.
Most history classes consist of. Laundry list style of teaching. It is invaluable if you are a teacher, or a parent or guardian of a student taking a history class from a teacher who is using a textbook.
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It saddens me to realize that the people charged with educating children in government schools accept this foolishness. The author appears to be an expert in race relations but certainly not an expert on teaching american history.
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If you are a us history teacher this will really expand your repertoire needs to be coupled with the opposite view though
Even though ive not finished the entire book i am amazed at the things the other history books seems to make all rosey when it ... Read More
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My failure rate was high my students hated the class and the entire enterprise was frustrating for both me and my students
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Over time without knowing anything about this book i discarded the textbooks and began teaching using other materials some of which i purchased and some of which i created
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I also began looking into the textbook industry and came to realize that history textbooks are not written to teach history but to provide as many facts in as inoffensive a way as possible
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In other words the purpose of history textbooks is to sell history textbooks
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I still find the flaw that loewen mentions in his other work too many times because it took away from the point of this book
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I also have issues with his stereotyping of teachers as women and always using the pronouns ‘her’ for a teacher
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While loewen has an understanding of racial discrimination he needs education on gender discrimination
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While this has the flavor of revisionist history some of his observations as a scholar of history is very compelling
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