AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Teaching Needham's Puzzle--fostering historical thinking.
Abstract
In this article, the author shares his teaching experience with regard to Needham's Puzzle and introduces online resources and teaching materials. He points out two difficulties he encounters in teaching the topic; the availability of model answers to the students and their lack of understanding of academic issues relating to the question. In conclusion, the author discusses how to foster students' historical thinking through learning Needham's Puzzle.
Introduction
The author, a teacher at the Chinese Civilization Center of City University of Hong Kong, gives courses in Chinese culture at the Center. Statistics from 1998 to 2000 show ...
- Thomson Scientific Announces Strategic Partnership with Chinese Academy of...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 4, 2007 700+ words
...Academy of Sciences to host the Chinese Science Citation Database on the ISI...Knowledge(SM) platform. The Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD...already extensive records, the Chinese Science Citation Database will comprise...
- Western Historical Thinking: an Intercultural Debate.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: CLIO Kellner, Hans June 22, 2003 700+ words
Western Historical Thinking: An Intercultural Debate...in 1994 and 1995. Western Historical Thinking: An Intellectual Debate was...statement describing "Western historical thinking," followed by fifteen responses...
- Building higher-order historical thinking skills in a college survey class.
- Magazine article from: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods Olwell, Russell March 22, 2002 700+ words
...writing methods classes to teach historical thinking, the survey class in many cases...it. This placement of teaching historical thinking in only one class (or only upper...program should have an element of historical thinking built in, from introductory surveys...
- HISTORICAL THINKING AND OTHER UNNATURAL ACTS: CHARTING THE FUTURE OF TEACHING...
- Magazine article from: Social Education YEAGER, ELIZABETH ANNE September 1, 2001 700+ words
HISTORICAL THINKING AND OTHER UNNATURAL ACTS: CHARTING...argues in his newly published Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting...which history study can be put. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts could...
- Chinese science and technology books exhibited in Pyongyang
- News wire article from: Xinhua News Agency August 4, 2009 700+ words
Chinese science and technology books exhibited in Pyongyang PYONGYANG, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- More than 1,600 Chinese science and technology books were exhibited at the Pyongyang International Exhibition on Architecture Books Tuesday. The books...
- Chinese Science Team in Zimbabwe
- Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire November 26, 1996 700+ words
A four-member Chinese science and technology delegation arrived here today on a four-day...promoting ties with Zimbabwe. This is the first visit of the Chinese science and technology delegation to Zimbabwe, said Jin Shaoming...
- Thomson Scientific adds Chinese Science Citation Database.(NewsBytes)(Thomson...
- Magazine article from: Information Today January 1, 2008 700+ words
...partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to bring the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD) into the ISI Web of Knowledge...database, says MacGregor, "will build a bridge between Chinese science and the global research community." The partnership developed...
- Principles and practices in ancient Greek and Chinese science.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News March 1, 2007 700+ words
...9780860789932 Principles and practices in ancient Greek and Chinese science. Lloyd, G.E.R. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006 210 pages...evolution of animal species. The last articles comment on Chinese science and its tentative relationship with reality by design...
Source: HighBeam Research, Teaching Needham's Puzzle--fostering historical thinking.