Victorian Culture and Experiential Learning: Historical Encounters in the Classroom

ISBN-13: 9783030937935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 198 str.

Kevin A. Morrison

Opis

This 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.  

Spis treści

Section I: Foundations

Chapter 1. Introduction: Doing Victorian Studies

Chapter 2. Victorian Experiential Learning: On Object Lessons and Learning from Experience

Section II: Class-Based Activities

Chapter 3. Bridging the Distance: Learning Victorian Literature through Creative Projects

Chapter 4. Working with Mayhew: Collaboration and Historical Empathy in Precarious Times

Chapter 5. Cooking the Victorian Recipe

Section III: Active Learning Out of Doors

Chapter 6. Play, Craft, Design: Hands-On Victorianism

Chapter 7. Victorian Eugenics and Contemporary Service Learning

Chapter 8. Learning in Archives: Fevers, Romances, Methodologies

Chapter 9. Mapping Feeling: Geography, Affect, and History on the London Streets through Study Abroad

Section IV: The Application and Transformation of Knowledge

Chapter 10. Experiential Education and the Liberal Arts Major

O autorze

Kevin A. Morrison is Provincial Chair Professor, University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University, China. He is the author of Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place; A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley’s “Discreet Indifference”; and Study-Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (Palgrave, 2019).

Blurb

This 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. 

 

Kevin A. Morrison is Provincial Chair Professor, University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University, China. He is the author of Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place; A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley’s “Discreet Indifference”; and Study-Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (Palgrave, 2019).