An excellent book providing many valuable strategies

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I have just finished reading this excellent book, written by Dr Cooper and Arthur Chapman. I will admit to buying the book for one reason, that reason being ‘Alphonse the camel’ who gets a mention. For the uninitiated Alphonse dies for the sake of Causal reasoning, and has done so in numerous of my lessons, the instigator of this bizarre, but successful, activity is Mr Chapman. I thus expected to pick up one or two ideas that I could use in the History classroom, I am please to see that I have far more than the one or two I hoped for. The strength of the book is that the case studies are very recent and have an emphasis on the use of technology, thus we are dealing with the next generation of classroom activities, using ICT from an active learning approach. Constructing History is much more than a description of practical examples, it provides the pedagological theory behind the examples, reinforcing the usefulness of the practical examples, for one does not need to replicate the activity exactly to benefit from the approach. The emphasis on personalised and collaborative learning will be useful for CPD trainers, but the e-learning aspects are the parts that most interested me. I feel the book has something for all educators in History who wish to engage, stretch and inspire their students.
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