The Arts and the Teaching of History: Historical F(r)Ictions

by Penney Clark and Alan Sears

Book Overview

This book closely examines the pedagogical possibilities of integrating the arts into history curriculum at the secondary and post-secondary levels. Students encounter expressions of history every day in the form of fiction, paintings, and commemorative art, as well as other art forms. Research demonstrates it is often these more informal encounters with history that define students' knowledge and understandings rather than the official accounts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030515125
• ISBN13: 9783030515126
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"