The Practice of University History Teaching

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Alan Booth, Paul Hyland
Manchester University Press, 2000 - Education - 258 pages
Provides a guide to good practice and its development in the teaching and learning of history in universities and colleges. Its contributors 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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Imaginative ideas for teaching and learning Peter Davies
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
Motivating students by active learning in the history classroom
101
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
181
an evaluation of current practice
194
Assessing group work to develop collaborative learning
208
tests gender and the assessment
220
Learning from feedback on assessment Paul Hyland
233

Janet Conneely Rhys Davies and Derek Lynch
112
Deep learning and the large seminar in history teaching
125

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