NON-WESTERN HISTORY FOR TEACHERS
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NON-WESTERN HISTORY FOR TEACHERS |
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In
this day of extraordinarily specific data, historians are trained to be
narrow and specific which is contradictory because they still have to be
able to teach the grander picture. While teaching the specific units
of the past, we as history teachers, should make sure that the relevance
to the present is taken into account. As indicated by studentsfriend.com,
we should make sure that we “prepare students for the future, focus on
meaningful understanding, and be realistic in expectations”.
The
goal of this website is for high school world history teachers to be able
to guide their students, without too many hindrances, through a unit on
the impact of imperial colonization on both/all affected popular cultures.
Rather than just examining the impact the conquerors had over the conquered,
we should try to understand the cultural changes that occurred for both
homelands (the benefits and drawbacks of the interaction).
| This site has been prepared by Chai Reddy (credd@hawken.edu) as part of course requirements of students at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, who are enrolled in HIS 370 / 570, Summer Workshop -- World History for Teachers, during the 2003 Summer Semester; please contact the site webmaster with any comments. |
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Created: August 4th, 2003
Revised: August 4th, 2003
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