Laura M Westhoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1032281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura M Westhoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura M |
| FAMILY NAME | Westhoff |
| SIGNATURE | WESTHOFF L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Today's Culture War over History Teaching
Introduction
Where the Action Is
When was the last time your department had a substantial, much less multimeeting, discussion of curriculum reform?Even though history, and the humanities, are under national assault from administrators and politicians, our sense is that few departments spend much time on what is, arguably, their most important collective activity.Of all the work that drives history faculty to convene in that most cherished of institutions-the department meeting-c…
Introduction
No description supplied
Democracy and the Teaching of History in Our Perilous Moment
Thinking beyond the Essay
Peculiar Partners
Peace History
Curricular Conversation beyond the Institution
Globalizing the U.S. Survey
Surprising Opportunities for Historians
Journal Article Surprising Opportunities for Historians: Taking Control of the Assessment Process Get access Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1102–1103, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav780 Published: 01 March 2016
A Perfect Storm and the U.S. History Survey
Two decades ago three powerful intellectual, political, and technological fronts collided, creating a perfect storm that swirled around history education generally and the U.S. history survey in particular. The explosion of the Internet in the 1990s, the political controversy over the release of the U.S. History Standards in 1994, and the impact of research on historical thinking as a goal for history education, all left historians and teachers r…
Mark Pittenger. Class Unknown
Since the Progressive era, undercover investigations have been a popular means of depicting the poor. Middle-class investigators, posing as laborers and unemployed workers, descended into a class unknown as a way to gather social science data on the lives of its members and to foster cultural and psychological understanding across boundaries of difference. Mark Pittenger expertly explores this body of work in his engaging new book. He illustrates…
Historiographic Mapping
We are given so many facts and specifics about periods in history, but we generally do not get to practice the way an historian practices their craft.” While grading final papers for Introduction to Historical Inquiry, a new course I taught in 2009, I encountered Daniel’s ubiquitous lament. His complaint echoes studies in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that call on instructors at all levels to engage students in doing history. Ye…
Horace Mann's Troubling Legacy
In Horace Mann's Troubling Legacy, Bob Pepperman Taylor posits a tension present in public schools between intellectual values and political purposes, particularly citizenship education. He argues that this tension dates to the early days of the common school movement and the influence of Horace Mann as the chief architect of that movement. A political scientist, Taylor offers a theoretical analysis of Mann's work and its implications for subsequ…
Gender and the Exclusionary Politics of Social Knowledge
This study of the men and women of the Civic Federation of Chicago, which included both academics and activists, considerably expands scholarship surrounding two competing gendered paradigms of knowledge—the masculine neutral, distanced, objective expert versus a feminine mode of inclusive, participatory knowledge and activism. It suggests that this second mode allowed reformers to see values and practices as socially constructed, not as the resu…
The Leader and the Crowd
Journal Article Daria Frezza. The Leader and the Crowd: Democracy in American Public Discourse, 1880–1941. Translated by Martha King. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2007. Pp. x, 335. $44.95. Get access Daria Frezza. The Leader and the Crowd: Democracy in American Public Discourse, 1880–1941. Translated by Martha King. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2007. Pp. x, 335. $44.95. Laura M. Westhoff Laura M. Westhoff University of Missouri, S…
The Popularization of Knowledge
In 1900 John Dewey delivered the presidential address to the American Psychological Association (APA) urging his colleagues to adopt scientific methods as the foundation for their work. Psychology, he offered, would afford [them] insight into the conditions which control the formation and execution of aims, and thus enable human effort to expend itself sanely, rationally, and with assurance. His address proved an apt greeting to the new century, …
The Popularization of Knowledge
In 1900 John Dewey delivered the presidential address to the American Psychological Association (APA) urging his colleagues to adopt scientific methods as the foundation for their work. Psychology, he offered, would afford [them] insight into the conditions which control the formation and execution of aims, and thus enable human effort to expend itself sanely, rationally, and with assurance. His address proved an apt greeting to the new century, …
Historiographic Mapping
We are given so many facts and specifics about periods in history, but we generally do not get to practice the way an historian practices their craft.” While grading final papers for Introduction to Historical Inquiry, a new course I taught in 2009, I encountered Daniel’s ubiquitous lament. His complaint echoes studies in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that call on instructors at all levels to engage students in doing history. Ye…
The Popularization of Knowledge
In 1900 John Dewey delivered the presidential address to the American Psychological Association (APA) urging his colleagues to adopt scientific methods as the foundation for their work. Psychology, he offered, would afford [them] insight into the conditions which control the formation and execution of aims, and thus enable human effort to expend itself sanely, rationally, and with assurance. His address proved an apt greeting to the new century, …
The Leader and the Crowd
Journal Article Daria Frezza. The Leader and the Crowd: Democracy in American Public Discourse, 1880–1941. Translated by Martha King. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2007. Pp. x, 335. $44.95. Get access Daria Frezza. The Leader and the Crowd: Democracy in American Public Discourse, 1880–1941. Translated by Martha King. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2007. Pp. x, 335. $44.95. Laura M. Westhoff Laura M. Westhoff University of Missouri, S…
Gender and the Exclusionary Politics of Social Knowledge
This study of the men and women of the Civic Federation of Chicago, which included both academics and activists, considerably expands scholarship surrounding two competing gendered paradigms of knowledge—the masculine neutral, distanced, objective expert versus a feminine mode of inclusive, participatory knowledge and activism. It suggests that this second mode allowed reformers to see values and practices as socially constructed, not as the resu…
Horace Mann's Troubling Legacy
In Horace Mann's Troubling Legacy, Bob Pepperman Taylor posits a tension present in public schools between intellectual values and political purposes, particularly citizenship education. He argues that this tension dates to the early days of the common school movement and the influence of Horace Mann as the chief architect of that movement. A political scientist, Taylor offers a theoretical analysis of Mann's work and its implications for subsequ…
Historiographic Mapping
We are given so many facts and specifics about periods in history, but we generally do not get to practice the way an historian practices their craft.” While grading final papers for Introduction to Historical Inquiry, a new course I taught in 2009, I encountered Daniel’s ubiquitous lament. His complaint echoes studies in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that call on instructors at all levels to engage students in doing history. Ye…
A Perfect Storm and the U.S. History Survey
Two decades ago three powerful intellectual, political, and technological fronts collided, creating a perfect storm that swirled around history education generally and the U.S. history survey in particular. The explosion of the Internet in the 1990s, the political controversy over the release of the U.S. History Standards in 1994, and the impact of research on historical thinking as a goal for history education, all left historians and teachers r…
Mark Pittenger. Class Unknown
Since the Progressive era, undercover investigations have been a popular means of depicting the poor. Middle-class investigators, posing as laborers and unemployed workers, descended into a class unknown as a way to gather social science data on the lives of its members and to foster cultural and psychological understanding across boundaries of difference. Mark Pittenger expertly explores this body of work in his engaging new book. He illustrates…
Surprising Opportunities for Historians
Journal Article Surprising Opportunities for Historians: Taking Control of the Assessment Process Get access Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1102–1103, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav780 Published: 01 March 2016
Globalizing the U.S. Survey
Curricular Conversation beyond the Institution
Peace History
Peculiar Partners
Thinking beyond the Essay
Democracy and the Teaching of History in Our Perilous Moment
Introduction
No description supplied
Where the Action Is
When was the last time your department had a substantial, much less multimeeting, discussion of curriculum reform?Even though history, and the humanities, are under national assault from administrators and politicians, our sense is that few departments spend much time on what is, arguably, their most important collective activity.Of all the work that drives history faculty to convene in that most cherished of institutions-the department meeting-c…
Introduction
The Politics of Today's Culture War over History Teaching
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