Summit II: What Promise Does History Education Hold for Student Learning?

Overview

Summit II Agenda

Davis Hotel Information

Final Summit Logistics

Summit II Readings

Literacy in history: Language and meaning (Schleppegrell, Greer, and Taylor, 2008)

Into the Breach: Using Research and Theory to Shape History Instruction (Bain, 2000)

On the Reading of Historical Texts: Notes on the Breach between School and Academy (Wineburg, 2001)

Summit II Presentation Materials (more forthcoming)

Literacy in History: Enabling Historical Thinking (Powerpoint Slides from Professor Mary Schleppegrell)

What is Competent Historical Thinking in and out of the Classroom? (Powerpoint Slides from Professor Bob Bain)

Summit Videos

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell

Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis, Department of History

Bob Bain, University of Michigan, School of Education

Mary Schleppegrell, University of Michigan, School of Education