Victorian Culture and Experiential Learning: Historical Encounters in the Classroom

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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.    Acknowledgements Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures Part I: Foundations Chapter 1: Introduction: Victorian Studies, Experientially Historical Empathy Experiential Learning References Chapter 2: Experiential Learning in the Victorian Classroom: What Can We Learn from the Object Lesson? Process Versus Outcomes in Victorian Object Lessons The Challenge of Embodied and Situated Knowledge Conclusion: What Can We Learn from the Object Lesson? References Part II: Class-Based Activities Chapter 3: Bridging the Distance: Learning Victorian Literature Through Creative Projects Collaborative Learning Conclusion References Chapter 4: Working with Mayhew: Collaboration and Historical Empathy in Precarious Times Precarity, Empathy, Collaboration London Labour in the University Classroom Teaching London Labour: An Unfinished Project References Chapter 5: Cooking the Victorian Recipe: An Experiential Approach to Cookbooks in Victorian Studies How to Read the Victorian Recipe Authorial Personas and Cooking the Victorian Recipe Cooking the Victorian Recipe Conclusion Appendix Discussion Questions Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 References Chapter 6: Virginia Woolf, the Historical Sense, and Creative Criticism II III References Part III: Active Learning Out of Doors Chapter 7: Play, Craft, Design, Feel: Engaging Students and the Public with Victorian Culture Public Engagement and Victorian Literature References Chapter 8: Learning in Archives: Fevers, Romances, Methodologies The Field Trip and Experiential Knowledge Methods and Issues in Victorian Studies Victorian Domesticity Women’s Literature and London’s East End References Chapter 9: Mapping Feeling: Geography, Affect, and History on the London Streets Through Study Abroad Empathy Streets: The Royal London Hospital Museum and the Old Operating Theatre Maps I: Underground Streets: Hyde Park and Marshalsea Maps II: Charles Booth’s Map of London Poverty Steets: Coda References Chapter 10: Genetics, Eugenics, and the Text of Real-World Experience Reference Part IV: The Application and Transformation of Knowledge Chapter 11: The New Experiential Learning References Index