Big History as Connective Tissue
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This table is meant to be a quick reference guide for Montessori high school teachers in a public school setting trying to teach otherwise isolated courses through the unified and deep time perspective of Cosmic Education and Big History.
- Used by people who call the work: Big History, Montessori Cosmic Education
- Applies a deep time evolutionary perspective to: Education
- Learning Stages: Secondary 9 - 12
- Type: Document
- Keywords: Big, History, Cosmic, Education
- Why I love this Resource: It illustrates how to provide context for everything the high school student learns, thus offering context and meaning.
- File:https://dtnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Big-History-as-Connective-Tissue.pdf
- Posted By: Kyle Herman
- Date Added: April 22, 2015
Thank you Kyle for assembling this chart and I love the name ‘Big History as Connective Tissue’
It both is our connective tissue and about our connective tissue- and a crucial gift wrapped in tissue we ‘teachers’ offer to generations to come…embellished with what else they find!
Orla,
Thank you for your comment! I have to say that the “connective tissue” metaphor is David Christian’s, so I can’t claim any creative responsibility for that. However, I find it to be an extremely accurate image to convey the purpose of Big History. I will soon be posting a link to the video in which David Christian uses that very metaphor, so be on the lookout!
Thanks again,
Kyle
Kyle, Have you ever used Brian Swimme’s Powers of the Universe at the secondary level. It’s a terrific way for students to personally related to the larger context and see the powers within themselves as the same powers within the universe. Carol Kilby and Daisy Radigan, DTJN members, did a program in a Catholic high school in which they put a spiral on the floor and put the powers inside of boxes. Carol dressed up as Mama Universe and opened the boxes, explained the powers and how they relate to the students. It was a big hit. Here’s the link… Read more »