Teaching & Researching Big History:  Exploring a New Scholarly Field
Publisher: Uchitel Publishing House
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Volgograd, Russia
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9785705740277
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Big History's Big Potential; title: Section 1. Understanding and Explaining Big History; title: Swimming upstream: universal Darwinism and human history
label: David Christian; title: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Collective Learning as a Key Concept in Big History
label: David Baker; title: From Particles to Politics
label: Lowell Gustafson; title: To See the World in a Building: A Little Big History of Tiananmen
label: Esther Quaedackers; title: Chinese Traditions and Big History
label: Sun Yue; title: The Universal Breakthroughs of Big History: Developing a Unified Theory .
label: Ken Gilbert; title: The Future of Global Civilization: Commentary of Big Historians
label: Ekaterina Sazhienko; title: Section 2. Big History's Phases, Regularities, and Dimensions; title: The Star-Galaxy Era of Big History in the Light of Universal Evolutionary Principles
label: Leonid Grinin; title: Mathematical modeling of biological and social phases of big history
label: Andrey Korotayev,  Alexander Markov; title: The Dynamics of Evolution: What Complexity Theory Suggests for Big History’s Approach to Biological and Cultural Evolution
label: Ken Baskin; title: The Animals of the Spanish Empire: Humans and Other Animals in Big History
label: Abel A. Alves; title: Big History, Collective Learning and the Silk Roads
label: Craig Benjamin; title: Retrofitting the Future
label: Barry Rodrigue; title: Galactic-Scale Macro-engineering: Looking for Signs of Other intelligent
label: Joseph Voros; title: Species, as an Exercise in Hope for our Own; title: Section 3. Teaching Big History; title: Big History and Elementary Education
label: Michael Duffy, D’Neil Duffy; title: Big History and the secondary classroom:  A Twenty-First century approach to interdisciplinarity?
label: Tracy Sullivan; title: Constructing a Survey Big History Course
label: Cynthia Stokes Brown; title: Cosmology, Mythology, and the Timeline of Light
label: John Fowler; title: Big History Beads: A Flexible Pedagogical Method
label: Jonathon Cleland Host; title: Contributors to the volume