ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to help teachers overcome potential problems by offering strategies informed by research on history teaching and learning and drawn from effective classroom practice. It describes reflect on, and shares innovative educational practices using history films. The book chronicles working teachers who use movies to do more than simply cover a particular person, event, or period of time. It explores the educational value of historical empathy through "caring" and "perspective recognition". The book describes lessons devoted to the use of movies to develop historical empathy, as a means for analyzing or discussing controversies and difficult issues in history, to develop analytical or interpretive skills using film as a historical source, to help students visualize the past, and to introduce new perspectives through foreign films.
