Category: Learning Canadian History

How does one do history… That seems to be a rather open ended question, there are so many different ways that you can do history.  There is the often traditional approach which is learning for the test.  Which involves reading the textbook and learning the dates of event that occurs.  Another approach to doing history is to learn why an event happened,  we learn this way by critical thinking and looking at primary sources and finding out what the context for the event may have been.  An interesting part about the way Tracy Penny Light teaches history is during lectures she will give us the outline as to what took place at any given historic event, not many details.   We then have to read about the event and make our own interoperation of the event.  We have to be able to synthesize information and perform critical thinking versus reading and memorizing context.  Both ways of teaching have a place but the way TPL teaches, she teaches us a trait that can be used in all courses no matter the faculty.