Shailaja Menon, Shuchi Sinha, Harshita Das and Akhila Paydah (Eds.), Early Literacy Initiative, Practitioner Brief Booklets and Resource Books

Abstract

Among the disciplines in the school curriculum, History is the one where the (meta) concepts of explanation, truth and evidence are crucial and yet, these very concepts are the ones often found missing in educational discourses in general. Sam Wineburg’s book is a good guide to everyone who is serious about learning the value of explanation and truth in the history education. Not just history educators and teachers, everyone who cares about education—particularly when the enormity of virtual access to diverse ideas and practices is dazzling—will find this insightful book useful. The days when discipline is often missing in the humbug of inter-disciplinarity, when the intent and worth of an action is lost in the flurry of school activities, when determining meaning gets increasingly difficult, are the days where books like Wineburg’s have a potential to turn educators to education.