Teaching and Learning in History | Decoding The Ivory Tower

Dumb Questions?

Readers of the February 2017 edition of The History Teacher must have been surprised to see an article by Leah Shopkow with the title “How Many Sources Do I…

0 Comments

October 16, 2019

Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching and Learning in History / Teaching Strategies

Marx and Metaphors

I am going to say one word to you, and that word will change the entire way that you are looking at the material we are reading for class this…

0 Comments

August 6, 2019

Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching and Learning in History / Teaching Strategies

A Game of Chess

I have never been very proficient at the art of chess. The one time that I tried to remedy this lack by reading a work on the subject the…

0 Comments

July 8, 2019

David Pace

I am an emeritus professor in the History Department of Indiana University Bloomington, where I have taught since 1971. As the co-director with Joan Middendorf of the Freshman Learning Project, I helped create the Decoding the Disciplines approach to student learning, and I have been working with the scholarship of teaching and learning in its inception. I am dedicated to improving the quality of instruction in higher education as part of the effort to fight back against the inequality of opportunity that plagues our planet. I regularly give talks and workshops around the world on Decoding the Disciplines, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and history teaching. Click here to find out more about me and my work.

Special thanks to:

– Georg’ann Cattelona for services as editor-in-chief

– Priscilla Borges for all her technical help and creating this website.