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Author : Chris Smith
Release : 2016-07-13
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 446/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis History Through Stories by : Chris Smith
Download or read book History Through Stories written by Chris Smith. This book was released on 2016-07-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a complete approach to learning and improving literacy using storytelling, from Storytelling Schools, which offers resources and training for teachers.
Author : Thomas King
Release : 2003
Genre : American literature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 963/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Truth about Stories by : Thomas King
Download or read book The Truth about Stories written by Thomas King. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
Author : Alex Rosenberg
Release : 2018-10-09
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 42X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How History Gets Things Wrong by : Alex Rosenberg
Download or read book How History Gets Things Wrong written by Alex Rosenberg. This book was released on 2018-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It's not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong as Ptolemaic astronomy. We no longer believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Why do we still believe in historical narrative? Our attachment to history as a vehicle for understanding has a long Darwinian pedigree and a genetic basis. Our love of stories is hard-wired. Neuroscience reveals that human evolution shaped a tool useful for survival into a defective theory of human nature. Stories historians tell, Rosenberg continues, are not only wrong but harmful. Israel and Palestine, for example, have dueling narratives of dispossession that prevent one side from compromising with the other. Henry Kissinger applied lessons drawn from the Congress of Vienna to American foreign policy with disastrous results. Human evolution improved primate mind reading—the ability to anticipate the behavior of others, whether predators, prey, or cooperators—to get us to the top of the African food chain. Now, however, this hard-wired capacity makes us think we can understand history—what the Kaiser was thinking in 1914, why Hitler declared war on the United States—by uncovering the narratives of what happened and why. In fact, Rosenberg argues, we will only understand history if we don't make it into a story.
Author : Christian Liberty PR
Release : 2007-08-23
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 071/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis History Stories for Children by : Christian Liberty PR
Download or read book History Stories for Children written by Christian Liberty PR. This book was released on 2007-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History Stories for Children exposes children to a wide variety of wholesome stories based upon famous historical events and personalities from the Bible, America and around the world. Students sharpen their reading skills while they learn about King David, Alexander the Great, George Washington and many others. The stories within this volume can be used to enhance a wide variety of unit or topical studies. Grade 3.
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Release : 2003
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 294/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Our Stories Remember by : Joseph Bruchac
Download or read book Our Stories Remember written by Joseph Bruchac. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Stories Remember retells Native American stories.
