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

该项目将提供重大的新的好处，并利用AHRC领导奖学金授予博士托比绿色在2016年的早期职业路线的项目金钱，奴隶制和政治变革在前殖民地西非（AH/N 004485/1）。这一项目在教育领域产生了两个重大影响：第一个是发展和初步推广了OCR A级选项“非洲王国，c.第二个项目是编写一本新的在线教科书，免费提供给参加西非高中历史考试（WASSCE）的西非英语国家的所有高中学生。关于WASSCE教科书，这资助了文本的制作，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）会议上推出教科书。关于OCR课程，它资助了一个暑期学校和网站。然而，没有设想在提供这一资源的西非经济共同体国家进行教师培训。尽管如此，自项目启动以来，通过与非洲合作伙伴的对话，我们已经清楚地认识到，为了使项目取得全面成功，并达到最大数量的用户，需要一整套教师培训计划，因此，有必要为扩大最初的影响提供资金。Hiribarlen博士是伦敦国王学院历史系PI的同事。他作为共同调查员的参与是因为他迄今为止一直积极参与该项目，因为他设计了网站，撰写了其中两章，并出席了在弗里敦和班珠尔举行的两次项目会议。他是网站设计师、西非历史学家，为来自所有4个参与国的项目参与者所熟知，并在中学和大学拥有丰富的教学经验，是该项目教师培训方面的理想参与者。这些项目的启动使PI能够建立更全面的新联系，并建立一个框架，以确保全面实施这些项目并在实施过程中进行培训，这将由后续资金提供保障。在西非南南合作方案中，主要研究员和共同研究员将与西非伙伴合作，在4个国家中的每一个国家共同领导教学讲习班，为开发新资源作出贡献。这些讲习班将培训教师讲授教科书、新的教学模式和设计新的教材。在OCR项目中，与皇家非洲协会教育办公室建立的新伙伴关系将使项目能够与一系列学校建立全面联系，这些学校以前没有通过与这一方案有关的宣传活动接触到，因此，通过后续供资，这两种影响将从根本上扩大。通过在西非开发新的教学资源和专业知识，WASSCE的影响也将大大促进全球挑战研究基金框架的发展，而OCR教科书有助于实现扩大英国学校教授的观点和历史多样性的公认重要性。事实上，在后一种情况下需要注意的是，在皇家历史学会于2018年10月发布关于种族、民族和平等的报告（https：//royalhistsoc.org/racereport/）之后，这对历史专业来说越来越重要。

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/).