Antoinette Burton

A Primer for Teaching World History

Ten Design Principles

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Design Principles for Teaching History
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351887
• ISBN-10: 0822351889
• Artikelnr.: 34162013

Autorenporträt

Antoinette Burton

Inhaltsangabe

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