Description
Book SynopsisTeaching World History Through Wayfinding, Art, and Mindfulness approaches world history instruction through standards-based arts- and story-telling prompts. Each chapter provides contextualization through stories along with unique pieces of art from around the globe along with inquiries for teachers to examine by themselves and/or with their students through a mindfulness lens. By providing frameworks that support social studies instruction as well as social and emotional skill development. This book uses a wayfinding methodology to explore world history stories through art and provides pathways for instruction through reciprocal dialogues, and art- and mindfulness-based experiences.
Table of ContentsForeword
Preface – Just Open Your Eyes and See that Life is Beautiful
Chapter 1- Livin on a Prayer…in a Cave
Chapter 2- Desperately Wanting: Identity Forming in Classical Civilizations
Chapter 3- Immigrant Singing: Movement and the Post Classical Era
Chapter 4-In the Renaissance, My Name is Human
Chapter 5-The Beginning is the End is the Beginning: Colonization and Empire
Chapter 6-Raging Against the Machine: Industrial and Democratic Revolutions
Chapter 7-Bullets and Butterfly Wings: Investigating Imperialism
Chapter 8- Standing Alone: Pre- and Post- World War I
Chapter 9-The Space Between Our Wicked Lies: The Great Depression and World War II
Chapter 10-Frozen Remix: Navigating the Cold War
Chapter 11-Am I Wrong For Thinkin Out the Box From Where I Stay? New Identities, Decolonization, Revolutions, and Revolutionary Impacts
Conclusion-We are the People We’ve Been Waiting For
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