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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2025

Edward Ross Dickinson
Edward Ross Dickinson
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
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This chapter reviews the literature on the teaching of history, and defines the purpose of this book: to offer a clearer definition of the aims and benefits of the study of History at the college and university level. Two principles are at the heart of that conception. One is that long-standing methodological and epistemological divisions within the discipline are a source of its unique pedagogical value. The other is that History assumes a particular ethical posture relative to its subjects – the people it studies – and that this too is a source of its unique pedagogical value.

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History pedagogyhistorypedagogyteaching and learningteachinglearningcritical thinkinghistoricism
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Teaching History in Higher Education
Ethics, Aims, Methods
 , pp. 1 - 23
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Introduction
  • Edward Ross Dickinson, University of California, Davis
  • Book: Teaching History in Higher Education
  • Online publication: 07 February 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009519939.001
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  • Introduction
  • Edward Ross Dickinson, University of California, Davis
  • Book: Teaching History in Higher Education
  • Online publication: 07 February 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009519939.001
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  • Introduction
  • Edward Ross Dickinson, University of California, Davis
  • Book: Teaching History in Higher Education
  • Online publication: 07 February 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009519939.001
Available formats
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