{"id":333,"date":"2017-06-01T18:18:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2017-06-01T18:19:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:19:28","slug":"thinking-about-historical-thinking-post-norton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/thinking-about-historical-thinking-post-norton\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about historical thinking post- Norton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first two weeks of my course I conduct what I call \u201cHistory Bootcamp.\u201d Upon reflection, what I\u2019m trying to do is locate the threshold concepts that students need, combined with digital literacy skill, akin to what Calder describes his first three sessions to be. So, my first question is: what threshold concepts do I cover well and what concepts need buttressing or building?<\/em> Partly in response to Calder and Wineburg\u2019s focus on procudure, I think I also want to ask myself how much time (in weeks) should we devote to history bootcamp?<\/em><\/p>\n

Both Calder and L\u00e9vesque include lists of \u201cmoves\u201d or questions they ask themselves and their students. A third question for me is: how are these questions relevant to my teaching today and what parts of them need to change?<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally, and unrelated to what I\u2019ve written thus far, I\u2019m cognizant of the preponderance of male pedagogic theoretical frameworks in these articles, despite the long and equally valuable contributions of women scholars of teaching and learning. So, my final question is who aren\u2019t I reading that I should when I frame my own threshold concept questions?<\/em><\/p>\n

I can only begin to answer these questions. I know that my students struggle with the past as a stranger element of historical thinking, and that needs better incorporation into my History Bootcamp. Two weeks of actual working on threshold concepts might be necessary, which I do now, but I think I may need to acknowledge that the first week is for settling in and extend my Bootcamp to the first total of three weeks.<\/p>\n

On the question of moves, I want to include at least two additional questions I ask students to wrestle with: what sort of digital literary is necessary to ask informed historical questions and how does the way we ask a question of the past inform our ability to recognize injustice? These are preliminary answers, but digital literacy and justice are questions I haven\u2019t seen in our readings and I know I wish to cover.<\/p>\n

As for more reading I might assign myself, I\u2019ll likely start with Joan Scott and move forward chronologically. I\u2019m especially interested to investigate if there are feminist cognitive learning scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first two weeks of my course I conduct what I call \u201cHistory Bootcamp.\u201d Upon reflection, what I\u2019m trying to do is locate the threshold concepts that students need, combined with digital literacy skill, akin to what Calder describes his first three sessions to be. So, my first question is: what threshold concepts do IContinue reading “Thinking about historical thinking post- Norton”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}