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Burton Weltman
Burton Weltman has taught history for over forty-five years and has taught history education for more than twenty years. He has worked in and with a wide range of schools. These ha...view moreBurton Weltman has taught history for over forty-five years and has taught history education for more than twenty years. He has worked in and with a wide range of schools. These have included inner city and suburban schools; elementary, middle, and high schools; and, undergraduate and graduate college programs. He has taught prospective and practicing teachers at a wide range of colleges, including Essex Community College, Rutgers University, Teachers College/Columbia University, and William Paterson University, from which he recently retired as a social studies education professor.
Professor Weltman has also worked as a lawyer, serving as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of New Jersey and in a variety of policy-making and administrative positions for the City of New York and the State of New Jersey.
He grew up in Chicago and has been a life-long Cubs fan. This experience helps explain his interest in lost causes and in reconsidering the viewpoints of the losers in history, a key element in the method of teaching history as choice that he explains in this book.
As a child, Professor Weltman hated school, was terminally bored by his classes and frequently played hooky. He was drawn toward teaching by a desire to help save future children from the misery he had experienced in school. He was attracted to history by an unconventional high school teacher who made history interesting and relevant to his students by relating the choices and actions of people in the past to present-day problems, another key aspect of the method Professor Weltman demonstrates in this book.
Professor Weltman has an M.A. degree in American history, a J.D. degree, and an Ed.D. degree in social studies education.
He is married with two children and a grandchild. He lives in New Jersey.view less
Books by Burton Weltman
Was the American Revolution a Mistake?: Reaching Students & Reinforcing Patriotism Through Teaching History as Choice