Teaching the Silk Road

A Guide for College Teachers

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

AvJacqueline M. Moore,Rebecca Woodward Wendelken,Jacqueline M Moore

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Advocating a global as opposed to a Eurocentric perspective in the college classroom, discusses why and how to teach about China's Silk Road.The romance of the journey along the Silk Road with its exotic locales and luxury goods still excites the popular imagination. The trade route between China and Central Asia that flourished from about 200 BCE to the 1500s, the Silk Road can provide great insight for contemporary higher education curricula. Indeed, with people, plants, animals, ideas, and beliefs traversing it, the Silk Road is now considered both a metaphor of globalization and an early example of it.Teaching the Silk Road highlights the reasons to incorporate this material into courses and shares resources to facilitate that process. It is intended for those who are not Silk Road or Asian specialists but who wish to embrace a global history and civilizations perspective in teaching, as opposed to the more traditional "world history" view that shows impacts of other societies on Europe. The work explores both classroom and experiential learning and is intentionally interdisciplinary. Each essay focuses on pedagogical strategies or themes that teachers can use to bring the Silk Road into the classroom.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt372 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Asian Studies Development
Antal sidor250
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438431024

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List of IllustrationsIntroductionMorris RossabiI. Disciplinary Approaches to the Silk Road 1. Weaving with Silk: Using the Silk Roads to Organize World History Surveys before 1500Masako N. Racel2. How to Use the Silk Roads in the European History Survey CourseMarybeth Carlson3. The Silk Road and Chinese Identity, Past and PresentRobert W. Foster4. Silk Road Studies in the Political Science ClassroomRick Parrish5. Teaching the Silk Road in Comparative PoliticsGang Guo6. Art and the Silk RoadJoan O’MaraII. Thematic Approaches to the Silk Road 7. Incorporating Nomads into the Curriculum, One Steppe at a TimeRonald K. Frank8. Philosophical Refl ections on National IdentityTongdong BaiIII. Practicalities 9. Silk Roads, Service Learning, and MythmakingHirsh Diamant10. Taking Students along China’s Silk RoadMarcia J. Frost11. Mapping the Silk RoadRebecca Woodward Wendelken12. Using Primary Sources to Teach the Silk RoadJacqueline M. MooreIV. A Personal Perspective 13. Flashes at the End of the Sky—My Personal Khotan on the Silk RoadZhang HeAbout the AuthorsIndex

"Based on years of experience, the authors of Teaching the Silk Road offer sound strategies for both stand-alone courses on aspects of the route and mainstreaming what has been uncovered in three decades of research into existing courses in a variety of disciplines." — H-Net Reviews (H-Asia)"This collection of essays and personal reflections allows the reader to listen in on a relaxed conversation on teaching the topic of the Silk Road. It offers a nice blueprint for integrating the Silk Road into new or existing curricula." — J. Michael Farmer, author of The Talent of Shu: Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan