A Multidimensional Study On The Teaching Practice Of Learning History By Doing History In American Middle Schools

Learning History by Doing History means Learning by Doing instead of Learning by Listening,which enables students to participate in dynamic historical exploration activities based on questions and historical materials under the guidance of teachers,thus enriching their perception and diverging their thinking.Give facts and concepts a verifiable personal understanding and interpretation,and master the corresponding means and methods.As a typical inquiry teaching method in American Social Studies,Doing History,after sustained development in the 1960 s and 1990 s,showed a trend of diversified development in the early 21 st century,mainly reflected in the renewal of inquiry vision and driving force,namely the integration of multiple dimensions.While sorting out the theoretical basis and development of Doing History,this paper focuses on the analysis of the teaching practice path of Doing History based on literature,art and geography,and highlights the originality of its design.On this basis,based on the honeycomb structure,the combinatorial relations and potential contradictions among multiple dimensions are explored.The stones of those hills may be used to polish gems.The important purpose of studying the teaching practice of Doing History from multiple dimensions is to hope that it can be beneficial to the teaching of historical inquiry in China.Based on the understanding of the teaching method and the analysis of the text and interview of the implementation of the local Doing History,this paper takes a look at the actual needs and development trend of history teaching in middle schools in China,and draws the corresponding enlightenment: to cultivate the core value,to carry out moral cultivation;Reverse the one-sided development and promote the simultaneous development of the five education;Follow up the subject dynamics and promote literacy landing.Then,taking the three lessons in the history textbook of junior middle school as examples,the local teaching case of Doing History based on literature,art and geography is designed to provide some ideas for the local practice of this teaching method.