Description
Book SynopsisThis book is a crucial resource for instructors interested in bringing the past alive for their students through hands-on, immersive educational experiences. While sharing a common historical field, the contributors hail from multiple disciplines, including art history, human biology, biological anthropology, and English literature. Ranging from assignments that involve students editing and annotating a primary work to producing an array of digital projects, and from participating in study-abroad programs to taking part in service-learning initiatives, the chapters will furnish readers with strategies for creating engaged and dynamic classrooms. Although the focus of the book is on Victorian Britain, the pedagogical approaches outlined in each chapter will be useful to instructors of any historical field.
Table of ContentsSection I: FoundationsChapter 1. Introduction: Doing Victorian StudiesChapter 2. Victorian Experiential Learning: On Object Lessons and Learning from ExperienceSection II: Class-Based ActivitiesChapter 3. Bridging the Distance: Learning Victorian Literature through Creative ProjectsChapter 4. Working with Mayhew: Collaboration and Historical Empathy in Precarious TimesChapter 5. Cooking the Victorian RecipeSection III: Active Learning Out of DoorsChapter 6. Play, Craft, Design: Hands-On VictorianismChapter 7. Victorian Eugenics and Contemporary Service LearningChapter 8. Learning in Archives: Fevers, Romances, MethodologiesChapter 9. Mapping Feeling: Geography, Affect, and History on the London Streets through Study AbroadSection IV: The Application and Transformation of KnowledgeChapter 10. Experiential Education and the Liberal Arts Major
