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Titre(s) : Teaching big history [Texte imprimé] / edited by Richard B. Simon, Mojgan Behmand, and Thomas Burke
Publication : Oakland, California : University of California Press, ©2015
Description matérielle : xvi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Comprend : The case for big history. What is big history? / Richard B. Simon ; Big history and
the goals of liberal education / Mojgan Behmand ; Summer institutes : collective learning
as meta - education / Thomas Burke ; Assessing big history outcomes : or, how to make
assessment inspiring / Mojgan Behmand ; Big history at other institutions / Mojgan
Behmand , Esther Quaedackers, and Seohyung Kim ; A practical pedagogy for teaching
big history. Teaching complexity in a big history context / Richard B. Simon ; Teaching
threshold 1 : the big bang / Richard B. Simon ; Teaching threshold 2 : the formation
of stars and galaxies / Kiowa Bower ; Teaching threshold 3 : heavier chemical elements
and life cycle of stars / Richard B. Simon ; Teaching threshold 4 : the formation
of out solar system and earth / Neal Wolfe ; Teaching threshold 5 : the evolution
of life on earth / James Cunningham ; Teaching threshold 6 : the rise of Homo sapiens
/ Cynthia Taylor ; Teaching threshold 7 : the agrarian revolution / Martin Anderson
; Teaching threshold 8 : modernity and industrialization / Richard B. Simon ; Threshold
9? : teaching possible futures / Richard B. Simon, Martin Anderson, J. Daniel May,
Neal Wolfe, Kiowa Bower, Philip Novak, and Debbie Daunt ; Reflective writing in the
big history classroom / Jaime Castner ; Activities for multiple thresholds ; Igniting
critical curiosity : fostering information literacy through big history / Ethan Annis,
Amy Gilbert, Anne Reid, Suzanne Roybal, and Alan Schut ; A little big history of big
history / Cynthia Stokes Brown ; Big history and its implications. Big history at
Dominican : an origin story / Philip Novak ; Teaching big history or teaching about
big history? : Big history and religion / Harlan Stelmach ; The case for awe / Neal
Wolfe.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over
time through a diverse range of disciplines that spans cosmology, physics, chemistry,
astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and archaeology, thereby reconciling
traditional human history with environmental geography and natural history. Weaving
the myriad threads of evidence-based human knowledge into a master narrative that
stretches from the beginning of the universe to the present, the Big History framework
helps students make sense of their studies in all disciplines by illuminating the
structures that underlie the universe and the connections among them. Teaching Big
History is a powerful analytic and pedagogical resource, and serves as a comprehensive
guide for teaching Big History, as well for sharing ideas about the subject and planning
a curriculum around it. Readers are also given helpful advice about the administrative
and organizational challenges of instituting a general education program constructed
around Big History. The book includes teaching materials, examples, and detailed sample
exercises. This book is also an engaging first-hand account of how a group of professors
built an entire Big History general education curriculum for first-year students,
demonstrating how this thoughtful integration of disciplines exemplifies liberal education
at its best and illustrating how teaching and learning this incredible story can be
transformative for professors and students alike"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Histoire -- Étude et enseignement
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520283541 (Cloth). - ISBN 0520283546 (Cloth). - ISBN 9780520283558 (Paper).
- ISBN 0520283554 (Paper). - ISBN 9780520959385 (erroné) (e-book). - ISBN 0520959388
(erroné) (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43908095w
Notice n° :
FRBNF43908095
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