Education and Understanding: Big History around the World
EDITOR – Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev
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Big History is a new field that has been developing rapidly around the world. It deals with the universe’s grand narrative of 13.8 billion years and provides a connection between our past, present and future. This volume, the second in a three-volume series, considers humanity’s search for meaning and expression. It seeks to challenge and excite our vision of daily life in light of the discoveries happening all around us.
This volume will interest not just scholars of Big History, Astronomy, Sociology, and Anthropology, but also general readers interested in understanding our existence as evolving life forms. The wealth of material constituting this volume may be used in colleges, schools, and research institutions around the world, such as Harvard University, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of London, and NASA.
The Editors
Barry Rodrigue is a geographer, archaeologist and historian who works as a Research Professor at the Eurasian Center for Megahistory and System Forecasting, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Rodrigue is a founding member of both the International Big History Association and the Asian Big History Association.
Leonid Grinin is Senior Research Professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Deputy Director of its Eurasian Center for Megahistory and System Forecasting.
Andrey Korotayev is Senior Research Professor at the Eurasian Center for Megahistory and System Forecasting, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences and Head of the Laboratory for Monitoring Socio-Political Destabilization Risks, National Research University, Higher School of Economics.
Big History is a new field that has been developing rapidly around the world. It deals with the universe’s grand narrative of 13.8 billion years and provides a connection between our past, present and future. This volume, the second in a three-volume series, considers humanity’s search for meaning and expression. It seeks to challenge and excite our vision of daily life in light of the discoveries happening all around us.
This volume will interest not just scholars of Big History, Astronomy, Sociology, and Anthropology, but also general readers interested in understanding our existence as evolving life forms. The wealth of material constituting this volume may be used in colleges, schools, and research institutions around the world, such as Harvard University, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of London, and NASA.
The Editors
Barry Rodrigue is a geographer, archaeologist and historian who works as a Research Professor at the Eurasian Center for Megahistory and System Forecasting, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Rodrigue is a founding member of both the International Big History Association and the Asian Big History Association.
Leonid Grinin is Senior Research Professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Deputy Director of its Eurasian Center for Megahistory and System Forecasting.
Andrey Korotayev is Senior Research Professor at the Eurasian Center for Megahistory and System Forecasting, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences and Head of the Laboratory for Monitoring Socio-Political Destabilization Risks, National Research University, Higher School of Economics.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
| Preface: The Essence Of Existence | Ix-Xii |
| Introduction: Education And Understanding: Big History Around The World Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin And Andrey Korotayev | 1-13 |
| P A R T I : Big History Education | |
|---|---|
| Relating Big History To Cosmic Evolution Eric J. Chaisson | 17-30 |
| Korean Education And Big History Seohyung Kim | 31-36 |
| An Innovative First-Year Experience For Twenty-First Century Liberal Education Mojgan Behmand | 37-46 |
| Civilization, Big History And Education In The United States Barry H. Rodrigue | 47-57 |
| Once Upon A Time There Was A Story To Be Told Jos Werkhoven | 58-72 |
| Webs Of Knowledge: Crossing Disciplines To Teach The Universe Douglas Northrop And Cameron Gibelyou | 73-80 |
| Big Science, Big History And Cosmic Narratives: Variant Approaches To The Big Story Barry Wood | 81-90 |
| P A R T I I : Big History Understanding And Expression | |
| Collective Learning: A Potential Unifying Theme Of Human History David Baker | 93-117 |
| The Rise Of Personhood: Development Of Social Justice And Natural Rights In The Axial Eras Lazar Puhalo | 118-123 |
| Understanding Place And Envisioning The Cosmos Rana P.B. Singh | 124-133 |
| Brain Stretching: Art And Big History Paula Metallo | 134-139 |
| The Briefest History Lucy Hawking | 140-144 |
| The Challenge Of ‘High-Throughput’ Computational Methods William J. Turkel And Ian Milligan | 145-157 |
| Chronozoom Behind The Scenes: Developing A Zoomable Timeline For Visualizing And Teaching Big History Roland Saekow | 158-162 |
| P A R T I I I : Meaning In Big History | |
| A Thought Experiment: Envisioning A Civilization Recovery Plan William Grassie | 163-172 |
| A Quest For Immortality Akop Nazaretyan | 175-180 |
| Thousands Of Years Human Lana Ravandi-Fadai And Kevin Mcneer | 181-190 |
| Tarumitra: Friends Of Trees, Understanding And Practising An Integrated Cosmology Orla O’reilly Hazra | 191-202 |
| The Cosmic Creation Story Brian Thomas Swimme | 203-213 |
| Our Modern Scientific Origin Story: A Very Short Version Cynthia Stokes Brown | 214-216 |
| The Universe Within Zhao Mei | 217-226 |
| Iles Tataev: Nature, The Cosmos And Art Isa Khadzhmuradov, Adlan Sagaipov, Ibragim Bitsaev, Irina Petranek And Barry Rodrigue | 227-233 |
| Two Themes Inherent In Big History James Tierney | 234-240 |
| P A R T I V: Big History Around The World | |
| The Meaning Of Humankind’s Emergence: From The Largest Possible Perspective John A. Mears | 243-254 |
| India: Evolving A Big History Shweta Sinha Deshpande | 255-264 |
| Cosmic Expression In The Caucasus: Kaitag Embroideries Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov, Saida Garunova And Nicholas Daniloff | 265-278 |
| Somalia: Studying The Past To Create A Future Sada Mire | 279-288 |
| Universal Studies And Big History In Japan Osamu Nakanishi And Nobuo Tsujimura | 289-294 |
| Cosmic Evolution In The Cradle Of Civilization David Blanks | 295-318 |
| Big History And World History In China’s Colleges And Universities Zhu Weibin | 319-324 |
| Bibliography | 325-357 |
| Notes On Editors And Contributors | 359-369 |
| Index | 371-379 |