Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited about Doing History (Multicultural Education) (Paperback)

Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited about Doing History (Multicultural Education) By James W. Loewen Cover Image
Call or email to see if a used copy is available.
Out of Print

Description


In this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Loewen once again takes history textbooks to task for their perpetuations of myth and their lack of awareness of todays multicultural student audience (not to mention the astonishing number of facts they just got plain wrong). How did people get here? Why did Europe win? In Teaching What Really Happened, Loewen goes beyond the usual textbook-dominated social studies course to illuminate a wealth of intriguing, often hidden facts about Americas past. Calling for a new way to teach history, this book will help teachers move beyond traditional textbooks to tackle difficult but important topics like conflicts with Native Americans, slavery, and racial oppression. Throughout, Loewen shows time and again how teaching what really happened not only connects better with all kinds of students, it better prepares those students to be tomorrows citizens.


Product Details
ISBN: 9780807749913
ISBN-10: 0807749915
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication Date: September 28th, 2009
Pages: 248
Language: English
Series: Multicultural Education