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Teaching Big History or Teaching about Big History? Big History and Religion
Teaching Big History (2014)
  • Harlan Stelmach, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Dominican University of California
Abstract
Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over time through a diverse range of disciplines that spans cosmology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and archaeology, thereby reconciling traditional human history with environmental geography and natural history. Weaving the myriad threads of evidence-based human knowledge into a master narrative that stretches from the beginning of the universe to the present, the Big History framework helps students make sense of their studies in all disciplines by illuminating the structures that underlie the universe and the connections among them. Teaching Big History is a powerful analytic and pedagogical resource, and serves as a comprehensive guide for teaching Big History, as well for sharing ideas about the subject and planning a curriculum around it. Readers are also given helpful advice about the administrative and organizational challenges of instituting a general education program constructed around Big History. The book includes teaching materials, examples, and detailed sample exercises.
Publication Date
December 23, 2014
Editor
Richard B. Simon, Mojgan Behmand, and Thomas Burke
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN
978-0520283541
Citation Information
Harlan Stelmach. "Teaching Big History or Teaching about Big History? Big History and Religion" Oakland, CATeaching Big History (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/harlan_stelmach/5/