Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index.
PART I: Teaching and learning history -- History matters -- Thinking our way into the past -- PART II: Constructing the past: a case study from Southwestern Colorado -- A sense of place -- The research design and project parameters: teachers, students, and curriculum -- Pieces of the past -- Making meaning of the past -- PART III: Teaching a history that matters -- Constructing pedagogy: applying research to practice -- History as a dialogic practice: sharing authority for constructing the past -- Understanding understanding: some tools for qualitative inquiry