Good Question: Right-Sizing Inquiry with History Teachers

This module is part of the #AHRSyllabus project. More information about the project can be found on the AHR website under #AHRSyllabus. Learn more about the AHA’s Mapping the Landscape of Secondary US History Education.

“Testing procedure and technique, P.S. 19.” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Whitney E Barringer, Scot McFarlane, and Nicholas Kryczka

In this essay for the #AHRSyllabus project, Whitney E Barringer, Scot McFarlane, and Nicholas Kryczka trace curricular initiatives around “inquiry” from the late nineteenth century to the present moment to suggest a set of best practices for today’s classroom that can, in their words, allow “students to see what history can do for them, and what they must do for themselves.”

Read the module in full here.