A primer for teaching world history : ten design principles
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A primer for teaching world history : ten design principles
Duke University Press, 2012
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-147) and index
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A Primer for Teaching World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are designing an introductory-level world history syllabus for the first time, for those who already teach world history and are seeking new ideas or approaches, and for those who train future teachers to prepare any history course with a global or transnational focus. Drawing on her own classroom practices, as well as her career as a historian, Antoinette Burton offers a set of principles to help instructors think about how to design their courses with specific goals in mind, whatever those may be. She encourages teachers to envision the world history syllabus as having an architecture: a fundamental, underlying structure or interpretive focus that runs throughout the course, shaping students' experiences, offering pathways in and out of "the global," and reflecting the teacher's convictions about the world and the work of history.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
How to Make Use of This Book ix
Introduction. Why Design? Thinking through World History 101 1
Part I. Laying Foundations 11
1. Timing: When to Start 13
2. Centering Connectivity 25
3. How to Do More than "Include Women" 37
4. World History from Below 49
Part II. Devising Strategies 61
5. The Event as a Teaching Tool 63
6. Genealogy as a Teaching Tool 73
7. Empire as a Teaching Tool 83
Part III. Teaching Technologies
8. Teaching "Digital Natives" 95
9. Global Archive Stories 107
10. Testing (for) the Global 117
Epilogue. Never Done 127
Notes 131
Selected Bibliography 141
Index 149
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