Pamela Mays: Why Teach History?

Any story told to a child is the beginning of history teaching, for the one essential about history as a subject is that it concerns human experience in time. The story helps children to distinguish that is often crudely described as between fact and fiction.


Myths are imaginary stories, half-based on truth, written by people for their own amusement. They cannot possess the factual accuracy of other kinds of story, but they reflect the values of their civilization in a way that no striaghtforward factual account ever can.


Learning to read and write fluently is a vital part of learning history, a subject whose ideas are conveyed in words, and for the yound or backward there are various ways of encouraging this.

本書針對歷史教學法，並配以大量參考書籍，感覺有點過時，應改為How to Teach History。