Teaching Big History

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Under Mojgan Behmand’s inspired leadership this large cohort of Dominican teachers have been at the forefront of designing and teaching innovative Big History courses for younger undergraduate university students.  I know of no other Big History teachers who have thought about pedagogy and assessment in this field as systematically and rigorously as Behmand, et al."—Craig Benjamin, author of Big History: Between Nothing and Everything"This book offers a great many illuminating insights into the practice of big history teaching and is an excellent, indispensable resource for all teachers of the thresholds' approach to big history."—Fred Spier, author of Big History and the Future of Humanity"Rich, diverse and engaging, this is THE book for teachers new to Big History.  Teachers at Dominican University tell what they learnt over four years as they collaborated to develop the world’s first foundation program in Big History." —David Christian, author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, and Director of the Big History Institute, Macquarie University, Sydney"In the twenty-second century, when Big History is taught in every university around our planet, future scholars of intellectual history detailing the rise of this new vision will begin their story with the faculty at Dominican University. Teaching Big History is both the story of their pedagogical creativity and a how-to handbook filled with their distilled wisdom. For anyone interested in joining this major revolution in education, there is no better guide than their carefully crafted and deeply inspiring book."—Brian Thomas Swimme, coauthor ofThe Journey of the Universe