Kintisch & Cordero, Breaking Away From The Textbook - A New Approach To Teaching American History

Abstract

Kintisch and Cordero are social studies teachers in the New York City public school system. For over a quarter of a century they have given workshops for teachers and developed a multicultural curriculum for the challenging and heterogenous classes they face. As the Foreword to the book rightly says, "students should be active not passive, creative and not merely receptive, and they should be put in a position to exercise their judgment and not simply be required to recall disconnected bits of information." By its own admission, the title of the book is misleading-it is not a textbook and not intended to replace one. It is a resource book for teachers, not students; moving beyond the textbook more clearly explains what the authors have in mind.