2016 Workshop Talk | 0:59:08 | All Grade Levels, History
Summary
What are the tools of learning history? Most curricular discussions revolve around what topics to cover, what information to deliver. Information is important, yet a classical approach to history is more concerned with forming the way our students reason about the past. Historical reasoning is a skill, a disciplined way of drawing inferences about the past. We want our graduates to discover information that we did not supply to them, and to arrive at sound conclusions that we did not suggest to them. If our students will ever go beyond us, we must equip them to learn for themselves. What are these history skills? Do they appear in our curricular objectives?
Speaker
Christopher Schlect, PhD, has worked in classical and Christian education for over 25 years. As fellow of history at New Saint Andrews College, he teaches courses in ancient and medieval civilizations, U.S. history, American Christianity, medieval education, and classical rhetoric, among other subjects. He has also taught introductory and advanced courses in U.S. history and ancient Rome at Washington State University. He is the director of New Saint Andrews CollegeÍs graduate program in classical and Christian studies. He taught history and Bible at Logos School in Moscow, Idaho, for many years, and he serves classical and Christian schools around the country through his consulting and teacher training activities. His published writings appear in various school curricula and other outlets. SchlectÍs research in twentieth-century Protestant church life has earned numerous competitive grants and fellowships.
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The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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