A Primer for Teaching World History

Informationen zum Autor Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written and edited many books, including Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism; The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau; Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History; and After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, all also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois! Urbana-Champaign. She has written and edited many books! including Empire in Question: Reading! Writing! and Teaching British Imperialism; The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau; Archive Stories: Facts! Fictions! and the Writing of History; and After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation! all also published by Duke University Press. Zusammenfassung Offers principles to consider when creating a world history syllabus; and prompts a teacher! rather than aiming for full world coverage! to pick an interpretive focus and thread it through the course. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

Zusammenfassung
Offers principles to consider when creating a world history syllabus; and prompts a teacher, rather than aiming for full world coverage, to pick an interpretive focus and thread it through the course.

Inhalt

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