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

该项目将带来重大的新好处，并利用2016年早期职业路线下授予Toby Green博士的AHRC领导奖学金，用于项目前殖民西非的金钱，奴隶制和政治变革（AH/N004485/1）。该项目在教育领域产生了两大影响：第一是开发并初步推广了OCR A级选项“非洲王国，约1400-1800年”；第二是开发了一种新的在线教科书，免费提供给西非英语国家参加西非高中历史考试（WASSCE）的所有高中生。这种后续资金使这些项目比最初为第一个项目提供影响资金时设想的更充分。关于WASSCE教材，该基金资助了教材的编写、网站的建立，并于2018年3月在班珠尔举行的西非教育理事会（WAEC）会议上发布了该教材。关于OCR课程，它资助了一个暑期学校和网站。但是，没有设想在提供这种资源的西非经委会国家进行教师培训。然而，自项目启动以来，通过与非洲合作伙伴的对话，已经清楚地认识到，要使项目完全成功，并达到最大数量的用户，需要一整套教师培训方案，因此，有必要通过资助扩大原有的影响。这次后续投标现在由Vincent Hiribarren博士作为联合调查员进行。Hiribarren博士是PI在伦敦国王学院历史系的同事。他作为共同调查员的参与源于他迄今为止对项目的大量参与，因为他设计了网站，编写了两个章节，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，并具有丰富的中学和大学教学经验，他是项目教师培训方面的理想参与者。这种后续供资的影响将是广泛的。这些项目的启动使PI能够开发一套更全面的新联系和框架，以确保充分利用这些项目并对其实施进行培训，这些将由后续资金提供。在WASSCE案例中，PI和Co-I将与西非伙伴合作，在为开发新资源做出贡献的4个国家中各自共同领导教学法讲习班。这些讲习班将培训教师如何编写教科书、采用新的教学模式和设计新的课程材料。在OCR的案例中，与皇家非洲协会教育办公室的新伙伴关系将使其能够与一系列以前没有通过与该选项相关的推广而接触到的学校建立全面联系。因此，这两项影响将通过后续供资大大扩大。WASSCE的影响还将通过在西非开发新的教学资源和专业知识，对全球挑战研究基金框架的发展产生重大影响，而OCR教科书有助于实现在英国学校教学中扩大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，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/).