What is PHE?
The Project for Historical Education is a
collaboration between the UNC School of Education and History Department. A
flourishing program in UNC’s History Department
during the 1990s, PHE's activities ceased after 2002
due to funding problems. In the fall of 2006, the PHE was revived with the help
of new financial support and a new collaborative plan that includes both the
School of Education and the History Department. The PHE is now once again
organizing programs for public school teachers on new approaches to historical
research and pedagogy, stressing the importance of dialogue and conversation
among UNC faculty, public school teachers, and future teachers. The goal is to
strengthen and support historical education in North Carolina.
Our goal
is to foster a high degree of interactive learning, and our seminars usually
include a lecture, small-group work, and plenary discussions. We average around
40-45 participants, each of whom receives a packet of materials, including
primary documents, short articles, bibliographies, and maps, that he or she may
use for further study or with students in their classrooms. Participants may
also obtain teacher recertification credit for each seminar they attend.
PHE has
also published a book of essays on historical education in the United States, Learning History in America: Schools, Cultures
and Politics, edited by Lloyd Kramer, Donald Reid, and William
L. Barney (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994).
For more
information on PHE, and other projects like it, see this article by Leon Fink
in the American
Historical Association's Perspectives
magazine: After National Standards: What Next for History in the
Schools? by Leon Fink
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