Establishing a Voice for History in Schools: The First Methods Textbooks for History Instruction 1896-1902

• Autores: David Warren Saxe
• Localización: Theory and research in social education, ISSN 0093-3104, Vol. 22, Nº 4, 1994, págs. 482-514
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article is an examination of five early history methods textbooks. The textbooks reviewed here represent an overview of pre-1910 history curricula on a theoretical and developmental level, and offer a different view of history instruction. Historians Barnes and Fling and Caldwell created texts for the general or field market, Channing and Hart for students and teachers in public schools, and Mace and Bourne expressly for normal school and college preservice history teachers. Although Channing and Hart probably best represented and perhaps best captured the flavor of the recommendations made by the Committee of Seven, each of the five texts contributed to the traditional history curriculum by offering their descriptions and explanations of various facets of the overall program.