Teaching Recent Global History
Title | Teaching Recent Global History PDF eBook |
Author | Diana B. Turk |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2014-03-05 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1136638350 |
Teaching Recent Global History explores innovative ways to teach world history, beginning with the early 20th century. The authors’ unique approach unites historians, social studies teachers, and educational curriculum specialists to offer historically rich, pedagogically innovative, and academically rigorous lessons that help students connect with and deeply understand key events and trends in recent global history. Highlighting the best scholarship for each major continent, the text explores the ways that this scholarship can be adapted by teachers in the classroom in order to engage and inspire students. Each of the eight main chapters highlights a particularly important event or theme, which is then complemented by a detailed discussion of a particular methodological approach. Key features include: • An overarching narrative that helps readers address historical arguments; • Relevant primary documents or artifacts, plus a discussion of a particular historical method well-suited to teaching about them; • Lesson plans suitable for both middle and secondary level classrooms; • Document-based questions and short bibliographies for further research on the topic. This invaluable book is ideal for any aspiring or current teacher who wants to think critically about how to teach world history and make historical discussions come alive for students.
Teaching Recent Global History
Title | Teaching Recent Global History PDF eBook |
Author | Diana B. Turk |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780203804117 |
Teaching Recent Global History explores innovative ways to teach world history, beginning with the early 20th century. The authors' unique approach unites historians, social studies teachers, and educational curriculum specialists to offer historically rich, pedagogically innovative, and academically rigorous lessons that help students connect with and deeply understand key events and trends in recent global history. Highlighting the best scholarship for each major continent, the text explores the ways that this scholarship can be adapted by teachers in the classroom in order to engage and inspire students. Each of the eight main chapters highlights a particularly important event or theme, which is then complemented by a detailed discussion of a particular methodological approach. Key features include: * An overarching narrative that helps readers address historical arguments; * Relevant primary documents or artifacts, plus a discussion of a particular historical method well-suited to teaching about them; * Lesson plans suitable for both middle and secondary level classrooms; * Document-based questions and short bibliographies for further research on the topic. This invaluable book is ideal for any aspiring or current teacher who wants to think critically about how to teach world history and make historical discussions come alive for students.
Teaching Global History
Title | Teaching Global History PDF eBook |
Author | Alan J. Singer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0415875498 |
"Designed for pre-service and practicing social studies teachers, this text is a powerful resource for promoting thoughtful reflection and debate about what the global history curriculum should be and how to teach it"--EBL.
Teaching Global History
Title | Teaching Global History PDF eBook |
Author | Alan J. Singer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2019-11 |
Genre | Social science teachers |
ISBN | 9780367024697 |
This updated edition of Teaching Global History challenges prospective and beginning social studies teachers to formulate their own views about what is important to know in global history and why. This essential text explains how to organize curriculum around broad social studies concepts and themes, as well as student questions about humanity, history, and the contemporary world. All chapters feature lesson ideas, a sample lesson plan with activity sheets, primary source documents, and helpful charts, graphs, photographs, and maps. This new edition includes connections to the C3 framework, updates throughout to account for the many shifts in global politics, and a new chapter connecting past to present through current events and historical studies in ways that engage students and propel civic activism. Offering an alternative to pre-packaged textbook outlines and materials, this text is a powerful resource for promoting thoughtful reflection and debate on what the global history curriculum should be and how to teach it.
Teaching Recent Global History
Title | Teaching Recent Global History PDF eBook |
Author | Diana B. Turk |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2014-03-05 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1136638369 |
Teaching Recent Global History explores innovative ways to teach world history, beginning with the early 20th century. The authors’ unique approach unites historians, social studies teachers, and educational curriculum specialists to offer historically rich, pedagogically innovative, and academically rigorous lessons that help students connect with and deeply understand key events and trends in recent global history. Highlighting the best scholarship for each major continent, the text explores the ways that this scholarship can be adapted by teachers in the classroom in order to engage and inspire students. Each of the eight main chapters highlights a particularly important event or theme, which is then complemented by a detailed discussion of a particular methodological approach. Key features include: • An overarching narrative that helps readers address historical arguments; • Relevant primary documents or artifacts, plus a discussion of a particular historical method well-suited to teaching about them; • Lesson plans suitable for both middle and secondary level classrooms; • Document-based questions and short bibliographies for further research on the topic. This invaluable book is ideal for any aspiring or current teacher who wants to think critically about how to teach world history and make historical discussions come alive for students.
A Primer for Teaching World History
Title | A Primer for Teaching World History PDF eBook |
Author | Antoinette Burton |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0822351889 |
This book offers principles to consider when creating a world history syllabus; it prompts a teacher, rather than aiming for full world coverage, to pick an interpretive focus and thread it through the course. It will be used by university faculty, graduate students, and high school teachers who are teaching world history for the first time or want to rethink their approach to teaching the subject.
Teaching Global History
Title | Teaching Global History PDF eBook |
Author | Alan J. Singer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2019-10-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0429679084 |
This updated edition of Teaching Global History challenges prospective and beginning social studies teachers to formulate their own views about what is important to know in global history and why. This essential text explains how to organize curriculum around broad social studies concepts and themes, as well as student questions about humanity, history, and the contemporary world. All chapters feature lesson ideas, a sample lesson plan with activity sheets, primary source documents, and helpful charts, graphs, photographs, and maps. This new edition includes connections to the C3 framework, updates throughout to account for the many shifts in global politics, and a new chapter connecting past to present through current events and historical studies in ways that engage students and propel civic activism. Offering an alternative to pre-packaged textbook outlines and materials, this text is a powerful resource for promoting thoughtful reflection and debate on what the global history curriculum should be and how to teach it.