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Engaging Students as Junior Historians: Teaching History Through Critical Perspectives

This presentation, led by Kyle Ward, Director of Social Studies Education at SCSU, focuses on innovative teaching strategies that empower students to become Junior Historians. It emphasizes the importance of understanding bias, perspective, and interpretation in history. Students are encouraged to actively engage in historical inquiry, examining how society influences historical narratives. Through assignments like History CSI and textbook editing, learners will dive deep into historical events and their layered meanings, fostering critical thinking over rote memorization.

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Engaging Students as Junior Historians: Teaching History Through Critical Perspectives

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  1. TEACHING WITH TEXTBOOKS Kyle Ward Director of Social Studies Education SCSU Krward@stcloudstate.edu

  2. I. Need to create Junior Historians • A. get students involved with the research • 1. Bias + Perspective=Interpretation • a. Bias • b. Perspective • -When did WWII start? • US-Dec. 7, 1941 • Europe-Sept. 1, 1939 • Africa-Oct. 1935 • Asia-Sept. 19, 1931 • c. Interpretation

  3. 2. History has layers • a. An event happened • b. People have written about that event • c. Society has impacted how we interpret it

  4. II. Heartbeat History • A. Depth vs. Breadth • B. it becomes about historical skills vs. fact memorizing

  5. IV. Textbook Assignments • A. History CSI • 1. need history detectives to investigate the case 2. need lawyers to make your case in court

  6. B. Textbook Editor Assignment • 1. You’ve been hired to edit a history textbook and you’ve been assigned the section on…

  7. C. Historiography Assignment

  8. 1. Chinese Immigration • a. 1905-“Immigrants were dangerous to society….” • b. 1916-“Their presence…threatened to create another race problem, which might someday rival in difficulty the Negro or the Indian problem.” • c. 1933-“You cannot make Americans out of these people; they will not become Christians, do not intermarry with other races.” • d. 1936-“Desirable people” • e. 1986-“They were extremely hardworking people.”

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