1st Edition

Teaching the Humanities

By Peter Gordon Copyright 1991

    First Published in 1991. The contributors to this book share the belief that the teaching of humanities should form an essential part of the school curriculum. It includes the areas of the scope of humanities, the cultural dimension of classroom language learnings and cross-curricular subjects of Geography, Reglues Education, Art and History as well as looking at computer assisted learning, how to handle controversial issues and case studies.

    Chapter 1 Approaching the Humanities, Peter Gordon; Chapter 2 The Scope of the Humanities, Richard Woff; Chapter 3 A Tale of Three Learners: The Cultural Dimension of Classroom Language Learning, Tony Burgess, John Hardcastle; Chapter 4 Geography and the Humanities, Vincent J. Bunce; Chapter 5 Religious Education and the Humanities, Josephine M. Cairns; Chapter 6 History and the Humanities, Peter Keelan, Alaric Dickinson; Chapter 7 *The structure of this chapter reflects syllabus planning for the GCSE (Mature) Examination undertaken by the writer on behalf of the London and East Anglian Examining Board., Anthony Dyson; Chapter 8 Controversial Issues in the Humanities: Helping Pupils to Handle Bias, Alex Porter; Chapter 9 Simulation and Computer Assisted Learning in the Humanities, Dickinson Alaric, Ashley Kent; Chapter 10 Lower School Humanities Courses: Three Case Studies, Ashley Kent;

    Biography

    Peter Gordon (Editor) is Professor of Education in the History and Humanities Department at the University of London Institute of Education.