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- Title: Self As Text: Adaptations of Honors Practice (On Outreach)
- Author : Honors in Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 171 KB
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City as Text[TM], the experiential learning program developed by the NCHC Honors Semesters Committee, has been adopted and adapted by hundreds if not thousands of educational institutions throughout the United States and beyond. Having served on the Honors Semesters Committee, I exported this learning strategy to Switzerland when I took a teaching position in the International Baccalaureate Program of the College du Leman in Geneva. I adapted City as Text[TM] for multi-disciplinary college preparatory students in Europe, and that adaptation might now serve in turn as a model for experiential learning in honors programs and colleges back in the United States. The focus and link between the City as Text[TM] experiences on two different continents and at two different levels of education will be what I call "Self as Text." The experiential learning experience that is the extension of and variation on NCHC's City as Text[TM] involved an educational trip from Geneva to Zurich taken by eighty-five International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge students accompanied by eight multi-disciplinary teachers. The Theory of Knowledge course serves to encourage eleventh- and twelfth-grade students, through an interdisciplinary inquiry into "what it means to know," to gain both a summative and forward-looking perspective on their education and on themselves as knowers. The course is most effectively taught by means of active learning, exploring essential questions that challenge students to discover and analyze the major ways in which we know and to make interconnections between these modes of knowing and the subject areas they have been studying. The trip served the purpose of initiating the eleventh-graders into the course. The students had been told that they would be going to two exhibits. The first was Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds, an exhibit of artfully displayed plasticized human cadavers, skinned to reveal (as the exhibit brochure announced) their "interior faces" of skeleton, muscles, nerves, and organs. The second was Buddha's Paradise at the Rietberg Museum in Zurich, displaying two-thousand-year-old Buddhist art. The students also knew that most of us would be eating dinner at a restaurant in Zurich where you eat in the dark. Finally, the students knew that they would be required to produce a criteria-based, graded, reflective essay on the trip activities.
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