Victorian Culture and Experiential Learning

This book is a crucial resource for instructors interested in bringing the past alive for their students through hands-on, immersive educational experiences. While sharing a common historical field, the contributors hail from multiple disciplines, including art history, human biology, biological anthropology, and English literature. Ranging from assignments that involve students editing and annotating a primary work to producing an array of digital projects, and from participating in study-abroad programs to taking part in service-learning initiatives, the chapters will furnish readers with strategies for creating engaged and dynamic classrooms. Although the focus of the book is on Victorian Britain, the pedagogical approaches outlined in each chapter will be useful to instructors of any historical field.

Presents a holistic approach of how to blend classroom study and experiential learning Covers a variety of experiential learning practices: community-based learning, archival research, and study abroad Includes a diverse and interdisciplinary range of contributors

Auteur
Kevin A. Morrison is Provincial Chair Professor, University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University, China. He is the author of Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place; A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley's "Discreet Indifference"; and Study-Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (Palgrave, 2019).

Contenu
Section I: Foundations.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Doing Victorian Studies.- Chapter 2. Victorian Experiential Learning: On Object Lessons and Learning from Experience.- Section II: Class-Based Activities.- Chapter 3. Bridging the Distance: Learning Victorian Literature through Creative Projects.- Chapter 4. Working with Mayhew: Collaboration and Historical Empathy in Precarious Times.- Chapter 5. Cooking the Victorian Recipe.- Section III: Active Learning Out of Doors.- Chapter 6. Play, Craft, Design: Hands-On Victorianism.- Chapter 7. Victorian Eugenics and Contemporary Service Learning.- Chapter 8. Learning in Archives: Fevers, Romances, Methodologies.- Chapter 9. Mapping Feeling: Geography, Affect, and History on the London Streets through Study Abroad.- Section IV: The Application and Transformation of Knowledge.- Chapter 10. Experiential Education and the Liberal Arts Major.