HISTORY
A Primer for Teaching African History
A Primer for Teaching Environmental History
tre vor r . getz
emily wakild & michelle k . berry
Ten Design Principles
Ten Design Principles
A Primer for Teaching African History is a guide for college and high
A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college
school teachers who are teaching African history for the first time,
and high school teachers who are teaching environmental history
for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses,
for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate
for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syl‑
their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare
labi, and for teachers who want to incorporate African history into
their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate environ‑
their world history courses. Trevor R. Getz offers design principles
mental history into their world history courses. Emily Wakild and
aimed at facilitating a classroom experience that will help students
Michelle K. Berry offer design principles for creating syllabi that
navigate new knowledge, historical skills, ethical development,
will help students navigate a wide range of topics, from food, envi‑
and worldview. He foregrounds the importance of acknowledging
ronmental justice, and natural resources to animal-human relations,
and addressing student preconceptions about Africa, challeng‑
senses of place, and climate change. In their discussions of learning
ing chronological approaches to history, exploring identity and
objectives, assessment, project-based learning, using technology,
geography as ways to access historical African perspectives, and
and syllabus design, Wakild and Berry draw readers into the process
investigating the potential to engage in questions of ethics that
of strategically designing courses on environmental history that will
studying African history provides. In his discussions of setting goals,
challenge students to think critically about one of the most urgent
pedagogy, assessment, and syllabus design, Getz draws readers into
topics of study in the twenty-first century.
the process of thinking consciously and strategically about design‑
Emily Wakild is Professor of History at Boise State University and the
ing courses on African history that will challenge students to think
author of Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s
critically about Africa and the discipline of history.
National Parks, 1910–1940. Michelle K. Berry is Lecturer in the
Trevor R. Getz is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at San Francisco State University, and the author and editor of several books, most recently, as coeditor of Slavery and its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora, as author of Abina and the Important Men, and as coauthor of Empires and
Departments of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR TE ACHING HISTORY A series edited by Antoinette Burton
Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective. DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR TE ACHING HISTORY A series edited by Antoinette Burton
Announcing a new series DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR TEACHING HISTORY EDITED BY ANTOINE T TE BURTON Books in this series provide a guide for college and secondary school teachers who are teaching a particular field of history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate specific topics into their history courses. These books are not intended to serve as a textbook nor advocate a particular school of thought. Rather, informed by the authors’ experiences in the classroom, they provide a guide to developing a syllabus around an integrated set of arguments and conceptual orientations. Ideal for teachers of all experience levels, the titles in this series help translate expert knowledge of a field into effective and thoughtful pedagogical strategies for a range of practitioners.
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