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The practice of university history teaching

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Alan Booth, Paul Hyland
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Manchester University Press, 2000 - Education - 258 pages
This book provides a guide to good practice and its development in the teaching and learning of history in universities and colleges. Its wide range of contributors use a variety of approaches to examine recent thinking on the teaching of the subject, survey current practices, and provide practical advice to teachers and departments at a time of considerable change.
  

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Historians Booth and Hyland, coeditors of History in Higher Education, have been very active in numerous projects focusing on the innovations needed in the teaching of history. Here, their ... Read full review

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developing scholarship in history teaching Alan Booth
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9
Teaching and the academic career Colin Brooks Jeremy Gregory
17
Creating a context to enhance student learning in history
31
Skills and the structure of the history curriculum Tim Hitchcock
47
enhancing students
60
Integrating information technology into the history curriculum
70
challenges and opportunities of Internet
85
Deep learning and the large seminar in history teaching
125
profiling for
137
Teaching oral history to undergraduate researchers
154
Fieldwork in history teaching and learning Ian Dawson
166
Reappraising and recasting the history essay Dai Hounsell
194
Assessing group work to develop collaborative learning
208
tests gender and the assessment
220
Select bibliography
248

Motivating students by active learning in the history classroom
101

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About the author (2000)

ALAN BOOTH was born in London in 1946 and traveled to Japan in 1970 to study Noh theater. He stayed, working as a writer and film critic, until his untimely death from stomach cancer in 1993. His highly praised Looking for the Lost is also available from Kodansha Globe.

Alan Booth is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Nottingham.
Paul Hyland is Head of the School of Historical and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University College.

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