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.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- How to Make Use of This Book
- Introduction: Why Design? Thinking through World History 101
- Part I: Laying Foundations
- One: Timing: When to Start
- Two: Centering Connectivity
- Three: How to Do More than “Include Women”
- Four: World History from Below
- Part II: Devising Strategies
- Five: The Event as a Teaching Tool
- Six: Genealogy as a Teaching Tool
- Seven: Empire as a Teaching Tool
- Part III: Teaching Technologies
- Eight: Teaching “Digital Natives”
- Nine: Global Archive Stories
- Ten: Testing (for) the Global
- Epilogue: Never Done
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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