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Whatever Happened to High School History?: Burying the Political Memory of Youth, Ontario: 1945-1995 (Our Schools Series)
Whatever Happened to High School History Burying the Political Memory of Youth Ontario 19451995 - Our Schools Series Author:Bob Davis Bob Davis examines official high school history teaching and related government policies from the 1940s to the mid-1990s, providing essential background for those concerned with how history will be taught in the 21st century. — Davis traces the demise of the old historiographical narrative of progress, the rise of an essentially content-free "ski... more »lls"-based approach to education, and the emergence of the new orthodoxy of post-modern theory, identifying the weaknesses of each and suggesting fruitful directions for future development of history teaching.
Whatever Happened to High School History? is a passionate and insightful account of crisis and decline in a subject that used to be the pillar of the secondary curriculum.