Teaching Historical Narratives by Jon A. Levisohn - 9781350433427

Teaching Historical NarrativesA Philosophical Inquiry into the Virtues of Historical Interpretation\nAuthor(s): Jon A. Levisohn\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350433427, 978-1350433427\nSynopsis\nWith this book Jon Levisohn argues that current history education is set up in a way that sees students of history at one end of a continuum with the academic experts in the field of history at the other, and where the goal of history education is to help students to think like historians. \n\nBuilding on a critical engagement with Carl Hempel, Hayden White, and David Carr, as well as contemporary work in virtue epistemology, Levisohn proposes a new theory of historiography which serves as a set of guidelines for the teaching and learning of history. According to the theory, the work of historiography is best characterized as a negotiation among narratives, weaving together received narratives with new info.