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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.

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