When students are making historical arguments they need tools that help them think through vast quantities of content quickly and provide a scaffold for complexity. I like to use two different activities that introduce two "Frameworks for Analysis" to help them do this, one for causes and one for effects.
Multiple Causation
Teaching Multiple Causation
My wife and I just finished the process of our move to Shanghai. So, with that done, I can return to this blog to post about my favorite skill to teach: Multiple Causation. It's been a longer than expected hiatus, but I doubt it matters very much given the fact that readers are essentially still … Continue reading Teaching Multiple Causation