How Do We Teach Global History? A Toynbee Prize Conversation
In this new feature for the Toynbee Prize Blog, we’ve invited five academics, representing a variety of institutions around the world, to reflect upon their experiences in designing and delivering courses to undergraduate and graduate students in global history.
What are the current challenges for teaching global history? What materials or techniques have proven effective? What are the pedagogical implications of these approaches? These are just some of the issues we will explore in an open, frank exchange of ideas.
We hope reflecting upon the pedagogy of global history will prove of use to our wider readership as we consider how the subject may be taught going forward.
Process: We’ve asked respondents to answer five broad questions. Once all responses were received, the editor shared the responses amongst the participants, inviting comment and re-appraisal of responses. These further responses were then lightly copy-edited before publication.
Participants:
Dr Qiao Yu (Capital Normal University Beijing)
Dr Philippa Hetherington (University College London)
Dr João Júlio Gomes dos Santos Júnior (Universidade Estadual do Ceará)
Dr Steffen Rimner (Utrecht University)
–Sean Phillips (University of Oxford)
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