Education
| One of the main purposes of the IBHA is to support the teaching of Big History. To this end, we will provide examples of syllabi now being used in the field. Barry Rodrigue and Daniel Stasko of the University of Southern Maine (United States) have compiled an exhaustive list of Big History syllabi. | |
| We will also offer examples of activities in the field being pursued by Big History Students. | |
| Some of the literature in the field of Big History is here. The IBHA seeks to provide a wide range of views on big history, but cannot be held responsible for any of the views expressed in the literature mentioned. | |
| Elementary Education | |
| Maria Montessori hoped that an education based on this universal story could produce a new consciousness in children of our fundamental unity with our fellow humans, with all living things and with the universe itself. An elementary school version of this integrated story of
everything from the Big Bang to today has been promoted in
Montessori elementary schools for most of the last century under the
rubric of "Cosmic Education." For a fuller explanation of
Montessori's approach, see "Children of the Universe: Cosmic
Education in Montessori Elementary Classrooms" by Michael and D'Neil
Duffy (Parent Child Press, 2002). Michael presented a paper on
Big History at the American
Montessori Society 2011 national conference in Chicago. Also see And then there was you, by Erika Gronik, at Blurb Books and Lulu.com. James Dunbar's BH comics are at http://jldunbar.com/JLDunbar.com/JLDunbar.html.
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