A primer for teaching world history : ten design principles / Antoinette Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Study and teaching.

History.

World history--Textbooks.

World history.

Civilization--History--Study and teaching.

Civilization.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xiii, 154 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Timing : when to start

Centering connectivity

How to do more than "include women"

World history from below

The event as a teaching tool

Genealogy as a teaching tool

Empire as a teaching tool

Teaching "digital natives"

Global archive stories

Testing (for) the global.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822351740

0822351749

9780822351887

0822351889

OCLC:

741103594