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Partners: Auburn University (Alabama); Indiana University Social Studies Development Center (Indiana); selected K-12 institutions across the United States.
The Persistent Issues in History Laboratory for Virtual Field Experience (PIH-LVFE) is a collaborative project that combines a database of over 20 video cases of authentic classroom practices with multiple resources and tools to enable pre-service social studies teachers to become better teachers. These resources and tools include: teaching resources (lesson plans, assessment tools, activity materials) associated with the videos; pre- and post-interviews with classroom teachers; reflections on teaching practices by classroom teachers; and online tools that allow faculty and pre-service teachers using the video database to annotate specific video segments, discuss teaching practices with peers and mentors, and integrate database resources into university classroom activities.
The theoretical framework for the cases included in the PIH-LVFE is based on problem-based historical inquiry instruction (PBHI). PBHI differs from what many times occurs with more traditional social studies instruction or other types of inquiry in that instructional activities focus students on examining persistent societal problems in a particular historical context. In the PBHI curricular framework, each unit of study begins with the explicit posing of a persistent societal problem that provides the motivating context for disciplined inquiry. Unit activities engage students in PBHI to explore the featured problem as it is instantiated in the particular historical period of study. In the process, students develop foundational knowledge, clarify key concepts, and confront pertinent ethical issues. As a culminating unit activity, students propose problem solutions and defend them with historical evidence. Such study helps to develop citizens who can critically weigh evidence and use knowledge generated from sound historical analysis to inform their decisions about these essential societal questions as they arise in the present and future.
ONLINE REFERENCE:
Persistent Issues in History Network
http://pihnet.org
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Thomas Brush
Project Director
Indiana University
School of Education
201 N. Rose Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405
Tel: 812-856-8458
Fax: 812-856-8245
Terrence Mason
Project Co-Director
Indiana University
Eigenmann Hall
Bloomington, IN 47405
Tel: 812-855-3838
John Saye
Project Co-Director
Auburn University
College of Education
Curriculum and Teaching
5040 Haley Center
Auburn, AL 36849-5212
Tel: 334-844-6891
Fax: 334-844-6789
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