History · Pedagogical Issues

A teacher wants his students to understand that History can be interpreted in multiple ways. Which of the following exercises will be LEAST relevant for this purpose? i. Ask students to read articles written in two different centuries about the history and practices of a particular community. ii. Ask students to read about a recent discovery related to a medieval war and understand how it changes the existing account of the war. iii. Ask students to speak to two different members of a community about their history, culture, and practices. iv. Ask students to read accounts about colonization written by a historian from the colonizing country and a historian from the colonized country.