Studies in the Nature and Teaching of History

W H Burston, D Thompson

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781317277057
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historiography
• Index: History

Originally published in 1967, this book is aimed at the student teacher and discusses the philosophy of history and the effective learning of it. It discusses the UK secondary school history syllabus, with a particular emphasis on whether contemporary history is of more relevance to pupils than traditional history. There is a specific chapter on the problems of value-judgements in history and history teaching. From a psychological point of view, the book examines the problems of concept formation, the uses and dangers of analogy and the question of imagination and inference in child and adolescent thinking.

INDEX

A

Abstraction, involved in generalisation in history, 4, 52, 74, 102

Actions, human in history,

as expressions of policy, 73–4, 88, 159–160;

as parts of historical process, 92, et seq.;

social context of, 74

Acton, 1, 125

Anachronism in history, 76, 80

Analogy, use of in history teaching, 60–61;

psychological problems of, 171, 177–182, 188

Archaeological material, use of in teaching, 173–7

Arrangement of events for teaching (see Grouping)

B

Barraclough, G., quoted, on nature of contemporary history, 108, 120, 126–8, 135

Beales, A. C. F., 166, 172

Beard, C. 2, 22

Becker, Carl, 2, 22

Berlin, I., 139–140, 158

Bias in history, 113, 144–5. (See also Objectivity)

Briggs, Asa, 78, 92, 105

Burston, W. H., 166, 172, 182, 189

Bury, J. B., 1

Butterfield, H., quoted, on moral judgments in history, 137–140, 143, 154, 158

C

Causation, in historical explanation,

theories of, 5;

classification of causes, 35 et seq., 91,

and moral judgments, 142–3;

problems of teaching, 100, 162–3, 186–8

Churchill, W. S., 122, 136

Clark, G. N., 22

Climate of opinion, 58, 94, 101

Cobban, A., 140–1, 158

Cohen, J., 164, 172

Colligation, in historical explanation, definition of, 72–5;

use of in history, 65–83, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• History and Sociology : What History Is and What it Ought to Be
• The Covering Law Theory of Historical Explanation
• Laws, Generalizations, and the History Teacher
• Colligatory Concepts in History
• Colligation and History Teaching
• The Nature and Teaching of Contemporary History
• Moral Judgments in History and History Teaching
• Some Problems in the Psychology of History Teaching
• Some Problems in the Psychology of History Teaching
• Index