Middle Level Students’ Responses to a Guided Inquiry of the Weeping Time

John H. Bickford; Molly Sigler Bickford; Razak Kwame Dwomoh

Middle Level Students’ Responses to a Guided Inquiry of the Weeping Time

John H. Bickford, Molly Sigler Bickford, Razak Kwame Dwomoh

Eastern Illinois University

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

 HISTORIANS’ TASKS, specifically their habits of mind, are
 meaningful far beyond the scholarship they produce and far outside
 the discipline of history. Historians critically evaluate ambiguous
 and seemingly foreign situations. They consider and weigh the
 best available evidence—some readily accessible, others obscure—
 which they rely upon to articulate findings. Historical inquiry, thus,
 involves gathering and reading documents; thinking carefully about
 what one knows, suspects, and cannot know; and communicating
 substantiated understandings in a persuasive way. The necessary
 habits of mind—or heuristics—transfer to diverse occupations, like
 an attorney or detective, and are associated with citizenship tasks,
 like discerning fact from opinion in a campaign advertisement or
 being an informed voter. Historians’ heuristics prepare students for
 college, careers, and citizenship, which are central tenets of modem
 education initiatives   . 

Original language	American English
Journal	The History Teacher
Volume	53
State	Published - Feb 2020

Disciplines

Education
Teacher Education and Professional Development
Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching

Access to Document

Bickford Bickford Dwomoh (2020).pdfFinal published version, 23.1 MBLicense: CC BY-NC-ND

Cite this

@article{6811c2c58e09451f80b757d53761e70e,

title = "Middle Level Students{\textquoteright} Responses to a Guided Inquiry of the Weeping Time",

abstract = " HISTORIANS{\textquoteright} TASKS, specifically their habits of mind, are meaningful far beyond the scholarship they produce and far outside the discipline of history. Historians critically evaluate ambiguous and seemingly foreign situations. They consider and weigh the best available evidence—some readily accessible, others obscure— which they rely upon to articulate findings. Historical inquiry, thus, involves gathering and reading documents; thinking carefully about what one knows, suspects, and cannot know; and communicating substantiated understandings in a persuasive way. The necessary habits of mind—or heuristics—transfer to diverse occupations, like an attorney or detective, and are associated with citizenship tasks, like discerning fact from opinion in a campaign advertisement or being an informed voter. Historians{\textquoteright} heuristics prepare students for college, careers, and citizenship, which are central tenets of modem education initiatives . ",

author = "Bickford, {John H.} and Bickford, {Molly Sigler} and Dwomoh, {Razak Kwame}",

year = "2020",

month = feb,

language = "American English",

volume = "53",

journal = "The History Teacher",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Middle Level Students’ Responses to a Guided Inquiry of the Weeping Time

AU - Bickford, John H.

AU - Bickford, Molly Sigler

AU - Dwomoh, Razak Kwame

PY - 2020/2

Y1 - 2020/2

N2 - HISTORIANS’ TASKS, specifically their habits of mind, are meaningful far beyond the scholarship they produce and far outside the discipline of history. Historians critically evaluate ambiguous and seemingly foreign situations. They consider and weigh the best available evidence—some readily accessible, others obscure— which they rely upon to articulate findings. Historical inquiry, thus, involves gathering and reading documents; thinking carefully about what one knows, suspects, and cannot know; and communicating substantiated understandings in a persuasive way. The necessary habits of mind—or heuristics—transfer to diverse occupations, like an attorney or detective, and are associated with citizenship tasks, like discerning fact from opinion in a campaign advertisement or being an informed voter. Historians’ heuristics prepare students for college, careers, and citizenship, which are central tenets of modem education initiatives .

AB - HISTORIANS’ TASKS, specifically their habits of mind, are meaningful far beyond the scholarship they produce and far outside the discipline of history. Historians critically evaluate ambiguous and seemingly foreign situations. They consider and weigh the best available evidence—some readily accessible, others obscure— which they rely upon to articulate findings. Historical inquiry, thus, involves gathering and reading documents; thinking carefully about what one knows, suspects, and cannot know; and communicating substantiated understandings in a persuasive way. The necessary habits of mind—or heuristics—transfer to diverse occupations, like an attorney or detective, and are associated with citizenship tasks, like discerning fact from opinion in a campaign advertisement or being an informed voter. Historians’ heuristics prepare students for college, careers, and citizenship, which are central tenets of modem education initiatives .

M3 - Article

VL - 53

JO - The History Teacher

JF - The History Teacher

ER -