Classroom, Research, and Public History: An Integrated Approach
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1985
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Gibbs, Bill et al.“Classroom, Research, and Public History: An Integrated Approach,” Public Historian, 7:1, Winter, 1985, 65-77
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AT A TIME when popular interest in history appears to be high, the historical enterprise seems unnecessarily fragmented. Classroom teachers, public agency officials, and research scholars-with their specialized functions in teaching, public programming, and research-have
too little interaction with each other. This lack of vital integration results in part from the tendency to separate teaching from research, the
classroom from the local context, and academic from local history. In too
many cases it has led to scholarship with little connection either to the
classroom or to the public, classroom learning that students find unrelated to their experience, and public programming isolated from an academic research and teaching base. One resolution to this impasse may
be an approach which uses research methods from the new social his-
tory, combining a statistical data base with a variety of other documentary sources to make the classroom a living history laboratory and the
local historical agency or museum an integral constituent in the educational process