Putting History Teaching "In Its Place'

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March 2011 The Journal of American History 1067 1 Lee Shulman, “Signature Pedagogies in the Professions,” Daedalus, 134 (Summer 2005), 52–59; Lee Shulman, “Pedagogies of Uncertainty,” Liberal Learning, 91 (Spring 2005), 18–25. 2 Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts (Philadelphia, 2001); Lendol Calder, “Uncoverage: Toward a Signature Pedagogy for the History Survey,” Journal of American History, 92 (March 2006), 1358–70; David Pace, “The Amateur in the Operating Room: History and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” American Historical Review, 109 (Oct. 2004), 1171–92; Arlene Diaz, Joan Middendorf, David Pace, and Leah Shopkow, “The History Learning Project: A Department ‘Decodes’ Its Students,” Journal of American History, 94 (March 2008), 1211–24. 3 Stephane Levesque, Thinking Historically: Educating Students for the Twenty-First Century (Toronto, 2008); Keith C. Barton and Linda S. Levstik, Teaching History for the Common Good (New York, 2009); Thomas Andrews and Flannery Burke, “What Does It Mean to Think Historically?,” AHA Perspectives, 45 (Jan. 2007), 32–35. Putting History Teaching “In Its Place”