Teaching Resources
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Reacting to the Past (RTTP): Developed at Barnard College, RTTP consists of role-immersion games in which "students are assigned characters informed by classic texts in the history of ideas." Most importantly, the games reverse the role of a typical lecture setting ---"class sessions are run entirely by students; instructors advise and guide students and grade their participation and written assignments." After attending and playing "Ghandi" at a regional Reacting to the Past conference at Duke University, I have adopted the learning games developed by the RTTP consortium in order to increase students’ abilities to hone their writing, analytical thinking, and oral communication skills necessary to “win.”
Previous games used in courses (published and unpublished): The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 BC; Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945; "Constantine and the Council of Nicaea"; Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791; "The Struggle for Civil Rights; and “London 1854: Cesspits, Cholera, and Conflict over the Broad Street Pump." Current games used in my 19th Century Black History and Southern Black History courses at the University of Alabama: "Frederick Douglass, Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Constitution, 1845," and "The Struggle for Civil Rights." |
"Dorothy Clark" is speaking with SNCC activists and non-affiliated activists at the Highlander Folk School (Spring 2015).
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