In this Book
- Teaching the Silk Road: A Guide for College Teachers
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-11
- Part I: Disciplinary Approaches to the Silk Road
- Chapter 6: Art and the Silk Road
- pp. 85-102
- Part II: Thematic Approaches to the Silk Road
- Part III: Practicalities
- Chapter 11: Mapping the Silk Road
- pp. 173-190
- Part IV: A Personal Perspective
- About the Authors
- pp. 231-234
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438431048
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
794699203
Pages
250
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No