A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories: Ten Design Principles

by Matt K. Matsuda

Overview

A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, as well as teachers who want to incorporate Pacific histories into their world history courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781478007951
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Publication date:	05/18/2020
Series:	Design Principles for Teaching History Series
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Matt K. Matsuda is Professor of History and Academic Dean of the Honors College at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and author of Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures and Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Objectives  1
Part I. Foundations
1. Begin with the State of Our Knowledge  19
2. Secure the Fundamentals: Navigation, Diaspora, Settlement  25
3. Underscore the Connections: Encounters in the Contact Zone  33
4. Review Disputed Legacies and Arguments  51
Part II. Devising Strategies
5. Imperialism as a Teaching Tool  67
6. Anthropology and Ethnology as Teaching Tools  89
7. Conflict as a Teaching Tool  95
8. Identity as a Teaching Tool  105
Part III. Performed Histories
9. Distinguish Representations and Realities  113
10. See the Process of Enacting Knowledge  121
Notes  145
Selected Bibliography  155
Index  161

What People are Saying About This

World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict - Heather Streets-Salter

“Bringing multiple aspects of Pacific histories together in new and welcome ways, Matt K. Matsuda provides a more comprehensive approach to teaching the field than any other publication that currently exists.”

Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism - J. Kehaulani Kauanui

“This is an inspired and inspiring text—a welcome and much needed contribution rich with resources, pedagogical innovation, and practical strategies. Conceptually exciting, it takes an ‘assemblage’ approach that emphasizes relationships and connections between actors and events across time. It offers a rethinking as to what constitutes the Pacific world itself—from the margins to the center, particularly from the Pacific Rim to the Oceanic basin—all while emphasizing connectivity in relation to global histories.”

Editorial Reviews

Bringing multiple aspects of Pacific histories together in new and welcome ways, Matt K. Matsuda provides a more comprehensive approach to teaching the field than any other publication that currently exists.

World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict - Heather Streets-Salter

In A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories, Matt Matsuda offers guidance on course structure, themes for inquiry, and resources to consult. The author’s multitude of overarching main ideas and supporting examples supply enough fundamentals for instructors working outside of their comfort zone as well as seasoned scholars looking for new perspectives.

Pacific Affairs - Michelle Ladwig Williams

"This book is an assemblage of key concepts in Pacific histories, topic and primary text suggestions, pedagogical approaches, and discussion-based exercises for the classroom. With its pragmatic approaches to pedagogy, this book would be useful for environmentally minded educators who seek to integrate transnational, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives in understanding environmental history, literature, and social movements."

ISLE - Heidi Amin-Hong

This is an inspired and inspiring text—a welcome and much needed contribution rich with resources, pedagogical innovation, and practical strategies. Conceptually exciting, it takes an ‘assemblage’ approach that emphasizes relationships and connections between actors and events across time. It offers a rethinking as to what constitutes the Pacific world itself—from the margins to the center, particularly from the Pacific Rim to the Oceanic basin—all while emphasizing connectivity in relation to global histories.

Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism - J. Kehaulani Kauanui

A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories outlines a course with a rich, welcome, and innovative historical perspective on the broader Pacific region.

Contemporary Pacific - David Hanlon

"A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories outlines a course with a rich, welcome, and innovative historical perspective on the broader Pacific region."--David Hanlon "Contemporary Pacific" (11/2/2021 12:00:00 AM)

"In A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories, Matt Matsuda offers guidance on course structure, themes for inquiry, and resources to consult. The author's multitude of overarching main ideas and supporting examples supply enough fundamentals for instructors working outside of their comfort zone as well as seasoned scholars looking for new perspectives."--Michelle Ladwig Williams "Pacific Affairs" (3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM)

"This book is an assemblage of key concepts in Pacific histories, topic and primary text suggestions, pedagogical approaches, and discussion-based exercises for the classroom. With its pragmatic approaches to pedagogy, this book would be useful for environmentally minded educators who seek to integrate transnational, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives in understanding environmental history, literature, and social movements."--Heidi Amin-Hong "ISLE" (1/5/2022 12:00:00 AM)

"Bringing multiple aspects of Pacific histories together in new and welcome ways, Matt K. Matsuda provides a more comprehensive approach to teaching the field than any other publication that currently exists."--Heather Streets-Salter, author of "World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict"

"This is an inspired and inspiring text--a welcome and much needed contribution rich with resources, pedagogical innovation, and practical strategies. Conceptually exciting, it takes an 'assemblage' approach that emphasizes relationships and connections between actors and events across time. It offers a rethinking as to what constitutes the Pacific world itself--from the margins to the center, particularly from the Pacific Rim to the Oceanic basin--all while emphasizing connectivity in relation to global histories."--J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of "Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism"

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