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World History Education
Summer Institute
June 28 – July 12, 1999
Colloquium in World History Education, 1914-1945 (Hist 726)
Professor Ka-che Yip, UMBC Department of History
Professor Daniel Ritschel, Director, UMBC Center for History Education
Professor Kibibi Mack, UMBC Department of Africana Studies
Mr. Bruce Lesh, Director, Maryland Council for History Education
The course was designed for middle and high school social studies teachers, with an eye to the forthcoming Maryland State Department of Education World History Content Standards. Particular emphasis was given to selected historical topics, lesson plan development, bibliographies, and collections of primary material for use in classrooms. Historiographical issues, as well as new research and teaching technologies such as Internet sites and electronic finding aids, were featured.
The course focused on the Western World and Africa in the first week and Asia in the second week. Morning sessions consisted of lectures and discussions on assigned readings. During the afternoon sessions, participants collaborated on lesson plans and instructional materials and heard presentations from history professionals on a variety of relevant themes, including the use of primary sources in the classroom and online historical research.
At the conclusion of the course, participants had developed two 10-page essays and two lesson plans on a choice of two of the themes and related readings.
Lectures and Related Discussion Topics:
First
World War
Discussion: “The War Guilt Debate”
(MD World History Standards: 15.12.2; 16.12.1; 17.12.1)
The Bolshevik
Revolution
Discussion: “Interpreting the October Revolution”
(MD World History Standards: 17.12.3)
Africa
in the World Depression
(MD World History Standards: 16.12.1; 16.12.5; 18.12.4)
The Rise
of Fascism
Discussion: “Adolf Hitler”
(MD World History Standards: 18.12.1; 18.12.4; 19.12.1)
African
Liberation Movements Before WWII
(MD World History Standards: 18.12.2)
The Holocaust
(MD World History Standards: 19.12.1; 19.12.3)
Teaching
the Holocaust with Film
Discussion: Critique of Schindler’s List
(MD World History Standards: 19.12.1; 19.12.3)
In Search
of a New Order: East Asia in the 1910s and 1920s
(MD World History Standards: 16.12.2 & 16.12.4)
The Nationalist
Revolution in China
(MD World History Standards: 16.12.4 & 18.12.2)
Japanese Militarism and Imperialism
(MD World History Standards: 17.12.1 & 19.12.1)
Second
Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War
(MD World History Standards: 19.12.1; 19.12.2; 19.12.3)
The Communist
Revolution in China
(MD World History Standards: 20.12.2)
Special Topics:
“Using
Primary Sources in the Classroom”
Maryland
History Day Program
Historical
Research on the Internet
Kim Collins, UMBC Center for History Education
