HIST 300 Chapter 11: Confessing History Summary
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Confessing history chapter 11: for teachers to live, professors must die. Three people died that day, but the point to. Calder"s story is that what others may see as freak accidents historians tend to see a pattern of contingency, similar to successful teaching. History professors, clder argues, are for the most part, experts in history, but not teaching because the study of teaching is very different than the research and study of the past. Calder discusses the shortcomings of mental models or. Engravings, which people use to explain and predict the outcome of events.