Can You Beat Churchill?

A. Barnhart Michael

Description

How do you get students to engage in a historical episode or era? How do you bring the immediacy and contingency of history to life? Michael A. Barnhart shares the secret to his award-winning success in the classroom with Can You Beat Churchill?, which encourages role-playing for immersive teaching and learning. Combating the declining enrollment in humanities classes, this innovative approach reminds us how critical learning skills are transmitted to students: by reactivating their curiosity and problem-solving abilities.Barnhart provides advice and procedures, both for the use of off-the-shelf commercial simulations and for the instructor who wishes to custom design a simulation from scratch. These reenactments allow students to step into the past, requiring them to think and act in ways historical figures might have. Students must make crucial or dramatic decisions, though these decisions need not align with the historical record. In doing so, they learn, through action and strategic consideration, the impact of real individuals and groups of people on the course of history. There is a quiet revolution underway in how history is taught to undergraduates. Can You Beat Churchill? hopes to make it a noisy one.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Diplomacy
• World War II
• Diplomatie (homonymie)

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501755668
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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CanYouBeatChurchill?

CanYouBeatChurchill?

TeachingHistorythroughSimulations

MichaelA.Barnhart

Cornell University Press IthacaandLondon

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Firstpublished2021byCornellUniversityPress

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Names:Barnhart,MichaelA.,1951–author. Title:CanyoubeatChurchill?:teachinghistorythroughsimulations/ Michael A. Barnhart. Description:Ithaca:CornellUniversityPress,2021.|Includes bibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2020039959(print)|LCCN2020039960(ebook)| ISBN9781501755644 (Hardcover) | ISBN 9781501758294 (Paperback) | ISBN7155561e(uP)b9PD(685675011578051879NBSI|)F Subjects:LCSH:Simulationgamesineducation.|History—Studyand teaching—Simulationmethods. Classification:LCCLB1029.S53B372021(print)| LCC LB1029.S53 (ebook)| DDC 371.39/7—dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020039959 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020039960

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Contents

1.FromGametoSimulation

2.Roles

3.Rules

4.Requirements

5.Room

6.TheA.I.

7.UndertheHood

8.SimulationsforanAfternoon

9.CanYouBeatChurchill?

Appendix:FindingHistoricalSimulations

Notes

Index

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Acknowledgments

Teachingbysimulationisinherentlyacollaborativework.Mycollabora tors over the years would number in the thousands, but they fall into three primary groups that deserve mention here. FirstinlinewouldbethemanyundergraduatesatStonyBrookUni versity who participated in—really, created themselves—the various sim ulations I have overseen there, especially in myGreat Power Rivalries 1936–1947simulation seminar. It is a measure of their enthusiasm and dedication that over forty of them would return to the university at a re cent homecoming to participate in a rapid rendition of the Cuban Missile Crisis. One simalum Skyped in from Moscow. Obviously, we put him on the Soviet team. SecondcomemycolleaguesatStonyBrook.Anexceptionallyconge nial History Department afforded me the opportunity to try out my ideas, and exceptionally gracious colleagues quickly turned from skeptics to cheerleaders. I owe individual mention to Eric Zolov, who actually took the plunge himself and now uses simulations in his courses, and to Seth