Moore Jacqueline M., Wendelken Rebecca Woodward (eds.) Teaching the Silk Road: A Guide for College Teachers

State University of New York Press, 2010. — 259 p. — ISBN 1438431023, 9781438431024.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.Weaving with Silk: Using the Silk Roads to Organize World History Surveys Before 1500. Masako N. Racel
How to Use the Silk Roads in the European History Survey Course. Marybeth Carlson
The Silk Road and Chinese Identity, Past and Present. Robert W. Foster
Silk Roads Studies in the Political Science Classroom. Rick Parrish
Teaching the Silk Road in Comparative Politics. Gang Guo
Art and the Silk Road. Joan O’Mara
Incorporating Nomads into the Curriculum, One Steppe at a Time. Ronald K. Frank
Philosophical Reflections on National Idenity. Tongdong Bai
Silk Roads, Service Learning, and Mythmaking. Hirsh Diamant
Taking Students along China's Silk Road. Marcia J. Frost
Mapping the Silk Road. Rebecca Woodward Wendelken
Using Primary Sources to Teach the Silk Road. Jacqueline M. Moore
Flashes at the End of the Sky- My Personal Khotan on the Silk Road. Zhang He
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