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How Good an Historian Shall I Be?

R.G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education

Marnie Hughes-Warrington

R.G. Collingwood's name is familiar to historians and history educators around the world. Few, however, have charted the depths of his reflections on what it means to be educated in history. In this book Marnie Hughes-Warrington begins with the facet of Collingwood's work best known to teachers-re-enactment-and locates it in historically-informed discussions on empathy, imagination and history education. Revealed are dynamic concepts of the a priori imagination and education that tend towards reflection on the presuppositions that shape our own and others' forms of life.

Table of Contents

Introduction: More than a Name
I. History in Peril
II. Sympathy, Empathy or Re-enactment?
III. The Subject-matter of History
IV. Theories of Imagination and Historical Imagination
V. Collingwood's Historical Imagination
VI. 'How Good an Historian Shall I Be?': Imagination and Education
VII. Towards an Historical Education
Conclusion: Beyond the Academy
Bibliography
Index

· ISBN 0-907845-61-4 · Published December 2003 by Imprint Academic · 241 pages · $49.90 ·

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