Lisa Schneier (2001) describes her role as “helping a group to develop a history of ideas”. The way that Professor Duckworth’s T440 course contains ideas which continually spiral back on each other through the classes, section meetings, readings and fieldworks …
Any ideas on how literacy and reading can be done through critical exploration?
Hi- I’m curious about kinds of projects others have had students do during or at the end of a critical exploration to help them push/clarify their thinking. Some examples of what I’m thinking about are: Assuming the role of a …
There is another great resource at: http://www.shorpy.com/ The site includes thousands of mostly black and white photographs in high-resolution digital form. They are arranged in galleries like: Civil War Dust Bowl Japanese American Relocation Kids (this includes child labor images) …
Here’s a great website for primary sources about the exploration of North America: http://www.americanjourneys.org This is some of what they say about themselves: American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas …
Within the approach of critical exploration, we often begin teaching about a subject matter by creating an encounter with a carefully chosen object of study that is drawn from or somehow embodies the subject matter we want to teach. The object of study is a primary source —
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