7 History Education as a Disciplined “Ethic of Truths”

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. History Education: Contested Terrain
6. A Brief Survey of Canadian Historiography 33
7. Teaching Canadian History 55
8. The Debate on History Education in Quebec 81
9. Teaching History from an Indigenous Perspective 97
10. Orientations Toward Historical Thinking
11. What It Means to Think Historically 115
12. Assessment of Historical Thinking 139
13. History Education as a Disciplined “Ethic of Truths” 154
14. Classroom Contexts for Historical Thinking
15. Historical Thinking in Elementary Education 175
16. Historical Thinking in Secondary Schools 195
17. The Shape of Historical Thinking in a Canadian History Survey Course in University 210
18. History Is a Verb 224
19. Other Contexts for Historical Thinking
20. Historical Thinking in the Museum 245
21. Creating and Using Virtual Environments to Promote Historical Thinking 264
22. Obsolete Icons and the Teaching of History 282
23. Perspectives on Historical Thinking
24. Ethnicity and Students’Historical Understandings 305
25. Learning and Teaching History in Quebec 325
26. Historical Thinking and Citizenship Education 344
27. Contributors 365
28. Index 371