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OverviewA Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching environmental 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 environmental history into their world history courses. Emily Wakild and Michelle K. Berry offer design principles for creating syllabi that will help students navigate a wide range of topics, from food, environmental justice, and natural resources to animal-human relations, senses of place, and climate change. In their discussions of learning objectives, assessment, project-based learning, using technology, and syllabus design, Wakild and Berry draw readers into the process of strategically designing courses on environmental history that will challenge students to think critically about one of the most urgent topics of study in the twenty-first century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emily Wakild , Michelle K. BerryPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780822371373ISBN 10: 0822371375 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 11 May 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface: How to Make Use of This Book ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I. Approaches 1. The Fruit: Into Their Lunch Bags to Teach Relevance and Globalization with Food 13 2. The Seed: Using Learning Objectives to Build a Course 27 3. The Hatchet: Wielding Critique to Reconsider Periodization and Place 39 4. The Llama: Recruiting Animals to Blend Nature and Culture 53 Part II. Pathways 5. The Fields: Science and Going Outside 71 6. The Land: Sense of Place, Recognition of Spirit 85 7. The Power: Energy and Water Regimes 99 Part III. Applications 8. The People: Environmental Justice, Slow Violence, and Project-Based Learning 115 9. The Tools: Using Technology to Enhance Environmental History 131 10. The Test: Assessment Methods, Rubrics, and Writing 141 Epilogue 151 Notes 153 Bibliography 163 Index 177ReviewsThis friendly book invites teachers to reflect on the wide and diverse natural world, on the joys of the classroom, and on the fascinations of past. Imagine Rachel Carson and bell hooks discussing The Historian's Craft by Marc Bloch. Add to that practical tips for designing syllabi and classroom exercises. Teachers of environmental history will be enriched by reading and re-reading Emily Wakild's and Michelle K. Berry's primer. -- Nancy J. Jacobs, author of * Birders of Africa: History of a Network * Emily Wakild and Michelle K. Berry challenge us to transform the environmental history classroom, suggesting we abandon the typical periodization or thematic issues that organize our syllabi. In their stead, they outline a more organic approach that unlocks the tangled pasts and contemporary interconnections of the foods, places, animals, and technologies students encounter daily. This provocative primer compels us to forsake rigid structure in favor of flexibility and innovation grounded in a deep reading of the literature. -- Kathleen A. Brosnan, author of * Uniting Mountain and Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range * Emily Wakild and Michelle K. Berry challenge us to transform the environmental history classroom, suggesting we abandon the typical periodization or thematic issues that organize our syllabi. In their stead, they outline a more organic approach that unlocks the tangled pasts and contemporary interconnections of the foods, places, animals, and technologies students encounter daily. This provocative primer compels us to forsake rigid structure in favor of flexibility and innovation grounded in a deep reading of the literature. -- Kathleen A. Brosnan, author of * Uniting Mountain and Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range * Author InformationEmily Wakild is Professor of History at Boise State University and the author of Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico's National Parks, 1910–1940. Michelle K. Berry is Lecturer in the Departments of History and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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