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The Humanities Council has awarded a grant to the Northeast Cultural Coop for two teacher workshops that will explore the history, culture, literature, art and architecture of Japan from the 3rd through the 15th centuries.
Ancient Japan: A Workshop for Middle and High School Teachers will be offered twice: on March 18 from 8:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. at Dartmouth College and April 29 during the same hours at the South Eastern Regional Education Service Center (SERESC) in Bedford. The workshops also will be available through a live
teleconference feed to the North Country Educational Services Center in Gorham.
Both sessions will explore life in early Japan from the late prehistoric era through the rise of samurai rule. The program at Dartmouth College will include a visit to the Hood Museum to view Japanese woodblock prints and a discussion of their connection to Japanese literature. Many early Japanese texts show an early example of what are now called “graphic novels.” Ways to approach teaching with this connection in mind will be addressed and teachers will create a lesson on crafting a graphic novel with their students using Japanese images and poetry. The Bedford session will cover the same content with prints presented electronically.
Several members of the Dartmouth faculty will serve as instructors for the workshops including Project Humanist Allen Hockley, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, and James Dorsey, Associate Professor of Japanese.
Collaborating with the Northeast Cultural Coop for these workshops are SERESC, North Country Education Services Center, the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, the New Hampshire Department of Education, the University of Pittsburg, and the Five College Center for East Asian Studies. Additional funding provided by the Freeman Foundation and the Center for Global Partnership, a branch of the Japan Foundation. Find registration information on the Northeast Cultural Coop’s website.
The Humanities Council has awarded a major grant to the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at Keene State College for a 2008 residential summer institute for secondary school teachers on the Holocaust and genocide.
The Cohen Center’s summer institutes attract educators, scholars and witnesses to genocide from around the world. The theme for this year’s institute, which will be held from July 13 to 19, is The Holocaust and Genocide: Lessons for Ethical and Responsible Civic Engagement and Global Action. Sibylle Niemoeller von Sell will give the keynote address. Niemoeller von Sell is the widow of Adolph Hitler’s only personal prisoner, Pastor Martin Niemoeller. Speakers will include Therese Seibert, a scholar who visited Rwanda in 2007 and will discuss the genocide that took place there.
Participants will experience an intensive week of study, reflection, collaboration and camaraderie. The institute will offer graduate-level lectures by scholars and witnesses on the history of the Holocaust and genocide and group discussions about applying the lessons to the classroom. The underlying purpose of the Institute is to provide a multidisciplinary introduction to both the historical background and facts of the Holocaust to facilitate more accurate and effective teaching of the Holocaust at the secondary level.
The institute will take place at Keene State College and participants will be housed in the new Pondside III Residential Hall.
Five additional workshops will be held during the following school year.
The fee is $150 for New Hampshire teachers and $400 for out-of state educators. The fee will cover room, board, all meals, and texts. Teachers may also apply for four graduate credits via Continuing Education at Keene State.
For more information or to download an application, go to the Cohen Center’s website or call Tom White at 603-358-2746 with questions.
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The Humanities Council has awarded a major grant to the New Hampshire Heritage Project for a four-day residential institute for North Country teachers of grades 8 to 12. The institute, titled Documenting the Past, Imagining the Future, will run from June 22 to 26 at The White Mountain School in Bethlehem and will focus on teaching methodologies in project-based learning, using community memory and heritage as a vehicle for reading, writing, research and critical thinking.
The goal of the institute is to deepen understanding of the processes involved in developing project-based curriculum focused on gathering and interpreting information and writing about community heritage. Participants will explore the ways in which community-based heritage learning can contribute to the development of sustainable communities through intergenerational and school-community partnerships.
Institute faculty will include Melinda Salazar, Senior Education Fellow at The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education in New York, and Kay Morgan, master teacher and Project Director at the New Hampshire Heritage Project. The opening keynote address will be given by Howard Mansfield, celebrated author of several books on community memory including In the Memory House.
The institute is part of a broader initiative created by the New Hampshire Heritage Project and the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture called Collecting Stories, Connecting Communities and funded by Jane’s Trust and the Tillotson Foundation. This initiative involves historical societies, community members, writers, teachers and students in the North Country in documenting and preserving the unique heritage of the region. The project will culminate in the publication of a print anthology of stories gathered in the North Country and modeled after Where the Mountain Stands Alone: Stories of the Monadnock Region produced by the Monadnock Institute and funded in part by a grant from the Humanities Council.
Partnering with the New Hampshire Heritage Project and the Monadnock Institute on this project are the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project, the Northern Forest Center, Plymouth State University, the Frost Place, the Littleton Historical Society, the Berlin-Coos County Historical Society, and the Conway Historical Society.
For more information on this summer institute or to register, contact Kay Morgan at 603-868-2485. |
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The Humanities Council has funded four summer institutes that will offer teachers an array of opportunities for professional development. Contact information for more details and registration are listed with each institute.
The New Hampshire Heritage Project will host an institute for North Country teachers of grades 8 - 12. Titled Documenting the Past, Imagining the Future, the institute will run from June 22 through 26 at The White Mountain School in Bethlehem. The institute will focus on teaching methodologies in project-based learning, using community memory and heritage as vehicles for reading, writing, research and critical thinking.
The goal of the institute is to deepen understanding of the processes involved in developing curriculum focused on gathering and interpreting information and writing about community heritage. Participants will explore the ways in which community-based heritage learning can contribute to the development of sustainable communities through inter-generational and school-community partnerships. For more information, contact project director Katherine Morgan at 868-2485.
The Historical Society of Cheshire County will host a three-day teacher workshop on The Civil War and Reconstruction from June 24 through 26 in Keene. The workshop is designed for educators who wish to expand their understanding of how people from the Monadnock region lived and responded to a divided nation, war, and reconstruction from 1860 through 1877. The workshop will also help teachers become more familiar with the types of primary materials that are available to teach about the Civil War and how to use those documents in the classroom. Materials from the the extensive archives of the Historical Society will be utilized, and the workshop will include interactive lectures, demonstrations by reenactors, the development of a “Cemetery Quest,” and role play. For more information, visit the Historical Society of Cheshire County’s website or contact Tom Haynes, Director of Education at the Historical Society of Cheshire County, at 352-1895.
The Classical Association of New England (CANE) will hold a week-long teacher institute from July 7 through 12 at Dartmouth College. Titled Revolution and Reaction: Radical Changes and Continuities in the Ancient World, this 26th annual CANE summer institute will offer teachers at all levels a rich program of lectures, mini-course seminars and other academic and artistic activities. The institute will examine revolutions and reactions in politics, art, literature, thought, and in the classical scholarship of the 20th century.
For more information contact CANE Director John Higgins at
413-528-6691 or visit CANE's website.
The Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at Keene State College will host a residential summer institute for secondary school teachers on the Holocaust and Genocide titled The Holocaust and Genocide: Lessons for Ethical and Responsible Civic Engagement and Global Action. The institute will be held from July 13 to July 19 at Keene State College.
Participants will experience an intensive week of study, reflection, collaboration and camaraderie. The institute will offer graduate-level lectures by scholars and witnesses on the history of the Holocaust and genocide and group discussions about applying the lessons to the classroom. The underlying purpose of the Institute is to provide a multidisciplinary introduction to both the historical background and facts of the Holocaust to facilitate more accurate and effective teaching of the Holocaust at the secondary level. The Cohen Center recently received the New England Board of Higher Education’s award as a New Hampshire Center of Excellence for 2008.
For more information or to download an application, go to the Cohen Center’s website or contact Tom White at 603-358-2746 with questions.
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