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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List of Illustrations
Introduction
Morris Rossabi
I. Disciplinary Approaches to the Silk Road
1. Weaving with Silk: Using the Silk Roads to Organize World History Surveys before 1500
Masako N. Racel
2. How to Use the Silk Roads in the European History Survey Course
Marybeth Carlson
3. The Silk Road and Chinese Identity, Past and Present
Robert W. Foster
4. Silk Road Studies in the Political Science Classroom
Rick Parrish
5. Teaching the Silk Road in Comparative Politics
Gang Guo
6. Art and the Silk Road
Joan O’Mara
II. Thematic Approaches to the Silk Road
7. Incorporating Nomads into the Curriculum, One Steppe at a Time
Ronald K. Frank
8. Philosophical Refl ections on National Identity
Tongdong Bai
III. Practicalities
9. Silk Roads, Service Learning, and Mythmaking
Hirsh Diamant
10. Taking Students along China’s Silk Road
Marcia J. Frost
11. Mapping the Silk Road
Rebecca Woodward Wendelken
12. Using Primary Sources to Teach the Silk Road
Jacqueline M. Moore
IV. A Personal Perspective
13. Flashes at the End of the Sky—My Personal Khotan on the Silk Road
Zhang He
About the Authors
Index
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Jacqueline M. Moore is Professor of History at Austin College. She is the author of several books, including
Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865–1900.
Rebecca Woodward Wendelken is Associate Professor of History at Methodist University.
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