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As part of its partnership initiative with the Humanities Council, the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire will be offering 16 humanities workshops for educators at the North Country Professional Development Day, Friday, October 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at White Mountains Regional High School, Whitefield. This annual event, presented and coordinated by North Country Education Services, is the largest professional development gathering in the region, serving hundreds of K-12 teachers from SAUs 3, 7, 20, 35, 36 and 58.
The humanities workshops include “Reading to Write: The NH Literary Landscape” and “Crosscut: The Art of Oral History” with Rebecca Rule; “Introducing Afghanistan through Literature, Material Culture and Art,” with Rachel Lehr & Ghulamsakhi Rustamkhan; “Teaching American History through Folk Song” and “Understanding American Culture through Traditional Games, Stories, Songs and Oral History” with Jeff Warner; “G is for GRANITE: Poetry as a Tool for Learning” with Marie Harris; “Traditional Russian Folktales and Folk Arts” and “Inside Russia Today” with Marina Forbes; “Linking Literature & Geography to Study Foreign Cultures” with Jennifer Fluri; “Teaching from the Built Environment” and “The Old Man of the Mountain Remembered” with Maggie Stier; “In Plain Sight but Hidden from View: Crackpots, Underdogs, Outsiders and Pioneers—New Hampshire History at its Best” and “Storytelling From Real Life: Views and Viewpoints in Creative Non-fiction” with D. Quincy Whitney; and “Telling the Story of a Poem” and “Extending the Metaphor” with Rodger Martin.
The fee for registrants from other districts (or the general public) is $60, and for retired educators $50. Download a brochure with detailed workshop descriptions. For details about upcoming humanities and arts workshops and programs, contact Frumie Selchen at 323-7302 or by email .
Location: Harvard Center for Government and Int'l Studies South Building 050
9:15 AM – 3:00 PM
*Workshop Limited to 20 Participants*
Description: This workshop assists K-12 educators in teaching about religion and religions (Islam in particular) in the classroom through highlighting the problem of religious illiteracy and offering theoretical and practical ways it can be overcome. Discussion both with the presenters and among the educators will be an important part of the workshop. The workshop is free of charge and is open to only 20 registrants. Participants will receive a copy of Professor Diane Moore’s book, Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Tayeb Salih's The Wedding of Zein and other Sudanese Stories (Heinemann, 1991).
There is a ten dollar workshop fee for registration. For more details, please see the Workshop's webpage, or email The Outreach Center at cmesoc@fas.harvard.edu.
The Outreach Center
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/outreach
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