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ERIC Number: EJ492079
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0037-7996
Epistemological Implications for Training Social Studies Teachers. Just Who Was Christopher Columbus?
Puk, Tom
Social Studies, v85 n5 p228-33 Sep-Oct 1994
Asserts that social studies teacher educators must help their students question the nature of knowledge in the social studies curriculum. Discusses epistemological implications of the social studies curriculum. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology, Historical Interpretation, Historiography, History Instruction, Individual Characteristics, North American History, Preservice Teacher Education, Primary Sources, Social Studies, Student Teachers, Teacher Educators, World History
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Columbus (Christopher); Historians