Skip to main content

Day 52 (1/26): One Man's Trash

 

"King of the Trash Hill," by Alan Levine (CC BY 2.0)

Aims & Objectives

  1. develop an awareness of how individuals and communities construct knowledge and how this is critically examined
  2. develop an interest in the diversity and richness of cultural perspectives and an awareness of personal and ideological assumptions
  3. examine how academic disciplines/areas of knowledge generate and shape knowledge
Essential Questions:
  1. How do historians construct knowledge? 
  2. How do we decide what counts as history?
Agenda:
Ongoing Concerns:
  • Keep Gathering and Reading for EE.  We will have a workday Friday--Workshop 3 Due SUNDAY NIGHT.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 66 (3/14): Artifacts, Memory, and a Sense of the Past

  Key Questions: Is all knowledge in some sense historical knowledge? Is empathy more important in history than in other areas of knowledge? What challenges does archive-based history emphasize about how knowledge is shared and preserved? Agenda Reading Time: Alan Radley, "Artifacts, Memory, and a Sense of the Past" Upcoming: Wednesday: At The History Museum Thursday: TOK Exhibition Draft Submitted Sunday: Blog (Details on Friday)
Post a Comment
Read more

Day 53 (1/28): Brain Break

  Because we had so many missing today, we decided to have a brain break. Remember that your EE Workshop 3 is due on Sunday!
Post a Comment
Read more