Richard B Simon

Teaching Big History Richard B Simon Annotated edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.;'Teaching Big History' is a powerful analytic and pedagogical resource, and serves as a comprehensive guide for teaching 'big history', and for sharing ideas about the subject and planning a curriculum around it. Readers are also given helpful advice about the administrative and organisational challenges of instituting a general education program constructed around 'big history'. Table of Contents: List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgments ' Introduction PART ONE: THE CASE FOR BIG HISTORY1. What Is Big History?--Richard B. Simon2. Big History and the Goals of Liberal Education--Mojgan Behmand3. Summer Institutes: Collective Learning as Meta-Education--Thomas Burke4. Assessing Big History Outcomes: Or, How to Make Assessment Inspiring--Mojgan Behmand5. Big History at Other Institutions--Mojgan Behmand, Esther Quaedackers, and Seohyung Kim PART TWO: A PRACTICAL PEDAGOGY FOR TEACHING BIG HISTORY6. Teaching Complexity in a Big History Context--Richard B. Simon7. Teaching Threshold 1: The Big Bang--Richard B. Simon8. Teaching Threshold 2: The Formation of Stars and Galaxies--Kiowa Bower9. Teaching Threshold 3: Heavier Chemical Elements and the Life Cycle of Stars--Richard B. Simon10. Teaching Threshold 4: The Formation of Our Solar System and Earth--Neal Wolfe11. Teaching Threshold 5: The Evolution of Life on Earth--James Cunningham12. Teaching Threshold 6: The Rise of Homo sapiens--Cynthia Taylor13. Teaching Threshold 7: The Agrarian Revolution--Martin Anderson14. Teaching Threshold 8: Modernity and Industrialization--Richard B. Simon15. Threshold 9? Teaching Possible Futures--Martin Anderson, J. Daniel May, Richard B. Simon, Neal Wolfe, Kiowa Bower, Philip Novak, and Debbie Daunt16. Reflective Writing in the Big History Course--Jaime Castner17. Activities for Multiple Thresholds18. Igniting Critical Curiosity: Fostering Information Literacy through Big History--Ethan Annis, Amy Gilbert, Anne Reid, Suzanne Roybal, and Alan Schut19. A Little Big History of Big History--Cynthia Stokes Brown PART THREE: BIG HISTORY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS20. Big History at Dominican: An Origin Story--Philip Novak21. Teaching Big History or Teaching about Big History? Big History and Religion--Harlan Stelmach22. The Case for Awe--Neal Wolfe Conclusion Annotated Bibliography of Big History Texts and ResourcesList of ContributorsIndexJacket Description/Flap: "Under Mojgan Behmand's inspired leadership this large cohort of Dominican teachers have been at the forefront of designing and teaching innovative Big History courses for younger undergraduate university students. I know of no other Big History teachers who have thought about pedagogy and assessment in this field as systematically and rigorously as Behmand, et al."--Craig Benjamin, author of "Big History: Between Nothing and Everything" "This book offers a great many illuminating insights into the practice of big history teaching and is an excellent, indispensable resource for all teachers of the thresholds' approach to big history."--Fred Spier, author of "Big History and the Future of Humanity" "Rich, diverse and engaging, this is THE book for teachers new to Big History. Teachers at Dominican University tell what they learnt over four years as they collaborated to develop the world's first foundation program in Big History." --David Christian, "author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History," and Director of the Big History Institute, Macquarie University, Sydney "In the twenty-second century, when Big History is taught in every university around our planet, future scholars of intellectual history detailing the rise of this new vision will begin their story with the faculty at Dominican University. "Teaching Big History" is both the story of their pedagogical creativity and a how-to handbook filled with their distilled wisdom. For anyone interested in joining this major revolution in education, there is no better guide than their carefully crafted and deeply inspiring book."--Brian Thomas Swimme, coauthor of"The Journey of the Universe"Biographical Note: Richard B. Simon is Adjunct Professor of English at Dominican University of California, instructor of English at City College of San Francisco, and Contributing Editor at "Relix" magazine. Mojgan Behmand is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dominican University of California. She is also Associate Professor of English and former Director of General Education and First Year Experience. Thomas Burke is Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Dominican University of California.

Contributor Bio:  Simon, Richard B Richard B. Simon is Adjunct Professor of English at Dominican University of California, instructor of English at City College of San Francisco, and Contributing Editor at "Relix" magazine. Mojgan Behmand is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dominican University of California. She is also Associate Professor of English and former Director of General Education and First Year Experience. Thomas Burke isAssistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Dominican University of California. Contributor Bio:  Burke, Thomas Burke is a Network Engineer at NetAbacus Corporation of San Francisco, a startup company that develops Web based business applications.