From Monograph to Classroom: Securing the Future of West African History Through Pedagogical Innovation

从专着到课堂：通过教学创新确保西非历史的未来

• 批准号: AH/T001143/1
• 负责人: Toby Oliver Ray Green
• 金额: $ 10.25万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT001143%2F1
• 关键词: Monograph; Classroom; Securing; Future; West

This project will deliver major new benefits and capitalise on the AHRC Leadership Fellowship awarded to Dr Toby Green under the Early Career Route in 2016 for the project Money, Slavery and Political Change in Precolonial West Africa (AH/N004485/1). There were two major impacts associated with this project as funded, both in the education sector: the first was the development and initial promotion of the OCR A level option "African Kingdoms, c. 1400-1800", and the second the development of a new online textbook freely available to all Senior Secondary schoolchildren in English-speaking West Africa sitting the West African Senior Secondary School Examination (WASSCE) in History.This follow-on funding allows the development of a much fuller take-up of these projects than was initially envisaged in the impact funding for the first project. Regarding the WASSCE textbook, this funded the production of the text, the setting up of the website, and the launching of the textbook at the West African Education Council (WAEC) meeting in Banjul in March 2018. Regarding the OCR course it funded a summer school and website. However no teacher training in the WAEC countries delivering this resource was envisaged. Nevertheless, since the project was launched, it has become clear through dialogue with African partners that a full suite of teacher training programs is required for the project to be fully successful, and to reach the maximum number of users, and hence the need for this funded expansion of the original impact is necessary.This follow-on bid is now made with Dr Vincent Hiribarren as co-Investigator. Dr Hiribarren is a colleague of the PI's in the History department at King's College London. His participation as Co-Investigator derives from the heavy participation he has had in the project to date, since he designed the website, wrote two of the chapters, and attended both project meetings in Freetown and Banjul. As website designer, a historian of West Africa, well known to participants in the project from all 4 participant countries, and someone with extensive pedagogical experience at secondary and tertiary levels, he is an ideal participant in the teacher training aspects of the project.The impact of this follow-on funding will be extensive. The launching of these projects has enabled the PI to develop a much fuller suite of new connections and a framework to now ensure full take-up of these projects and training in their implementation, which will be secured by the follow-on funding. In the WASSCE case, the PI and Co-I will co-lead pedagogy workshops in each of the 4 countries which contributed to the development of the new resource, in collaboration with West African partners. These workshops will train teachers in the delivery of the textbook, in new pedagogical models, and in designing new course materials. In the OCR case, a new partnership with the Royal African Society's Education office will enable full connection with a range of schools not previously reached through the promotion related to this option.Both impacts will therefore be radically extended through the follow-on funding. The WASSCE impact will also significantly build towards the development of the Global Challenges Research Fund framework through developing new pedagogical resources and expertise in West Africa, while the OCR textbook helps to deliver on the recognised importance of expanding diversity of perspectives and histories taught in UK schools. Indeed it's to be noted in the latter case that this is something of growing importance to the Historical profession, following the launch of the Royal Historical Society's report on Race, Ethnicity and Equality in October 2018 (https://royalhistsoc.org/racereport/).

该项目将带来重大的新效益，并利用 2016 年早期职业路线授予 Toby Green 博士的 AHRC 领导奖学金，该奖学金用于前殖民西非的金钱、奴隶制和政治变革项目 (AH/N004485/1)。该资助项目在教育领域产生了两个重大影响：第一个是 OCR A 级选项“非洲王国，约 1400-1800 年”的开发和初步推广，第二个是开发一本新的在线教科书，供所有参加西非历史高中考试 (WASSCE) 的西非英语高中学生免费使用。 这些项目的实施情况比第一个项目的影响力资助最初设想的要高。关于 WASSCE 教科书，它资助了文本的制作、网站的建立，以及 2018 年 3 月在班珠尔举行的西非教育理事会 (WAEC) 会议上启动教科书。关于 OCR 课程，它资助了暑期学校和网站。然而，没有设想在 WAEC 国家提供这种资源的教师培训。然而，自该项目启动以来，通过与非洲合作伙伴的对话，我们清楚地认识到，该项目需要一整套教师培训计划才能完全成功，并达到最大的用户数量，因此需要资助扩大最初的影响。目前，该后续投标由 Vincent Hiribarren 博士作为联合研究员进行。 Hiribarren 博士是伦敦国王学院历史系 PI 的同事。他作为联合研究员的参与源于他迄今为止对该项目的大量参与，因为他设计了该网站，撰写了其中两章，并参加了在弗里敦和班珠尔举行的两次项目会议。作为网站设计师、西非历史学家、为所有 4 个参与国的项目参与者所熟知的人，以及在中学和高等教育领域拥有丰富教学经验的人，他是该项目教师培训方面的理想参与者。这笔后续资金的影响将是广泛的。这些项目的启动使 PI 能够开发出一套更全面的新连接和框架，以确保充分利用这些项目并对其实施进行培训，这将由后续资金来保证。在 WASSCE 案例中，PI 和 Co-I 将与西非合作伙伴合作，在 4 个国家共同主持教学研讨会，为新资源的开发做出了贡献。这些讲习班将对教师进行教科书交付、新教学模式和设计新课程材料方面的培训。在 OCR 案例中，与非洲皇家学会教育办公室建立的新合作伙伴关系将能够与之前通过与此选项相关的促销活动未达到的一系列学校建立全面联系。因此，这两种影响将通过后续资金从根本上扩大。 WASSCE 的影响还将通过在西非开发新的教学资源和专业知识，极大地促进全球挑战研究基金框架的发展，而 OCR 教科书则有助于实现英国学校所教授的观点和历史多样性的公认重要性。事实上，在后一种情况下值得注意的是，继 2018 年 10 月皇家历史学会发布关于种族、民族和平等的报告 (https://royalhistsoc.org/racereport/) 后，这对历史专业来说变得越来越重要。