Whatever Happened to High School History?: Burying the Political Memory of Youth, Ontario: 1945-1995

by Bob Davis and Bob Davis

Bob Davis examines official high school history teaching and related government policies from the 1940s to the mid-1990s, providing essential background for those concerned with how history will be taught in the 21st century. Davis traces the demise of the old historiographical narrative of progress, the rise of an essentially content-free "skills"-based approach to education, and the emergence of the new orthodoxy of post-modern theory, identifying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155028486X
• ISBN13: 9781550284867
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Our Schools Our Selves
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.