A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles

Design Principles for Teaching History

by Antoinette Burton

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 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.

Genres: History, World History, Education, Academic

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Antoinette Burton is Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois. Among her books are Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India and At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain.

Also Antoinette M. Burton

Reviews

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this catalog of approaches to teaching globalism. Life that the author turned her classroom into a laboratory for implementing different approaches.

[Minosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was exactly what I have been looking for! Soooo helpful. I wish there was more of this!!!