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Can You Beat Churchill?: Teaching History through Simulations
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Can You Beat Churchill?: Teaching History through Simulations
Current price: $130.00
Barnes and Noble
Can You Beat Churchill?: Teaching History through Simulations
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Barnhart provides advice and procedures, both for the use of off-the-shelf commercial simulations and for the instructor who wishes to custom design a simulation from scratch. These reenactments allow students to step into the past, requiring them to think and act in ways historical figures might have. Students must make crucial or dramatic decisions, though these decisions need not align with the historical record. In doing so, they learn, through action and strategic consideration, the impact of real individuals and groups of people on the course of history.
There is a quiet revolution underway in how history is taught to undergraduates.
hopes to make it a noisy one.