Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories - Ten Design Principles

A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, as well as teachers who want to incorporate Pacific histories into their world history courses.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Objectives  1
Part I. Foundations
1. Begin with the State of Our Knowledge  19
2. Secure the Fundamentals: Navigation, Diaspora, Settlement  25
3. Underscore the Connections: Encounters in the Contact Zone  33
4. Review Disputed Legacies and Arguments  51
Part II. Devising Strategies
5. Imperialism as a Teaching Tool  67
6. Anthropology and Ethnology as Teaching Tools  89
7. Conflict as a Teaching Tool  95
8. Identity as a Teaching Tool  105
Part III. Performed Histories
9. Distinguish Representations and Realities  113
10. See the Process of Enacting Knowledge  121
Notes  145
Selected Bibliography  155
Index  161

About the author

Matt K. Matsuda

Summary

A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, as well as teachers who want to incorporate Pacific histories into their world history courses.

Product details

• Authors: Matt K Matsuda, Matt K. Matsuda
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781478008477
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0847-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Design Principles for Teaching History; Design Principles for Teaching
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Asiatische Geschichte, Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, HISTORY / Asia / General, EDUCATION / Higher, HISTORY / Historiography, History - General History