Posted in SHP Summer 2010, Student work, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources on August 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »
This week’s Reading Response assignment asked students to find 1-3 primary sources (government reports, news articles, website blurbs, etc.) and 1-2 related peer-reviewed secondary sources, and compare-and-contrast these sources. I designed this assignment to help students prepare for writing their essay.
This post complements student research highlighted in this post.
More details below the fold!
Posted in SHP Summer 2010, Student work, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources on July 29, 2010| 1 Comment »
We had a recent assignment this quarter that echoed an assignment from the spring quarter (here) in which students uncovered two peer-reviewed sources to help them formulate interview questions and/or to provide materials for their essay assignment.
Highlights of this work below the fold.
Posted in SHP Spring 2010, Student work, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources on July 26, 2010| 1 Comment »
One assignment for the Spring 2010 quarter asked students to read two peer-reviewed sources of their own choosing that related to their essay topic and/or interviewee.
Below the fold is selection of student observations based on their research, followed by a list of their sources and, finally, the details of the assignment itself.
Posted in Oral History, SHP Summer 2010, Student work on July 14, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Once again, student responses to our readings this quarter have provided many fruitful avenues for thought and discussion, and I wanted to bring some of these topics to the attention of the broader community.
This post complements last quarter’s discussion of student responses to the same readings, Discussion of oral history methods & philosophy.
Posted in SHP Summer 2010, Student work, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources on July 14, 2010| 8 Comments »
This post will serve as the medium through which students in the Summer 2010 quarter can provide updates on the group work and research that they’re doing to prepare for their interview and/or to write their essay. Updates can include:
This comment thread will, ideally, also provide students the opportunity to process some of their research findings in writing. I’ve consistently found it beneficial to jot down thoughts spurred by new information I’ve uncovered. Expressing in writing comparisons, contrasts, and other relevant points often helps me work-through my ideas on the topic which, in turn, helps me compose more appropriate interview questions and more coherent essays.
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Posted in Critiques of Sustainability, SHP Summer 2010, Student work, Uncovering & Evaluating Sources, What is Sustainability? on July 5, 2010| 4 Comments »
This post supplements On Sustainability, Summer 2010 (pt. 2 of 2) and provides reflections from two of my students this quarter on one particular article in this special issue of the journal Academic Questions. Ashley Thorne’s comment to the post Critiquing Sustainability alerted us to the publication of this special journal issue. I plan to post on other articles in this issue of the journal, but the present post will focus on Daniel Bonevac’s “Is Sustainability Sustainable?”[1]
Posted in SHP Summer 2010, Student work, What is Sustainability? on July 5, 2010| 3 Comments »
Below are more student reflections on the second reading response assignment of the summer term. See the post On Sustainability, Spring 2010 (pt. 2 of 2) for the details of this assignment and the citation to Gibson’s article; at the end of this post are citations for the articles that students chose as their second reading. Also, see the post In response to Bonevac, “Is Sustainability Sustainable?” for reflections specifically on Daniel Bonevac’s article in Academic Questions 23:1 (March 2010), 84-101.
(Part 1 of this term’s reading responses on sustainability here.)
Posted in SHP Summer 2010, Student work, What is Sustainability? on July 2, 2010| 3 Comments »
Our first assignment for the Summer 2010 quarter had us reading and responding to the same articles as the students in the Spring 2010 term; you can find the assignment details and journal entry citations in the post “On Sustainability, Spring 2010.” As I did in Spring 2010, I have extracted a selection of student comments and questions, below.
Posted in Oral History, SHP Spring 2010, Student work on April 27, 2010| 3 Comments »
Last week, students responded to two articles outlining the history, philosophy, and methods of oral history interviewing (core of assignment reproduced below). These readings prepared students for the class discussion we had on Thursday April 22. (Additional information on oral history methods & techniques can be found here.)
There were many thought-provoking elements in these student responses . . .
Posted in SHP Spring 2010, Student work, What is Sustainability? on April 8, 2010| 7 Comments »
This post continues the conversation from the post On Sustainability, Spring 2010. Again, I’ve gleaned themes and questions from student responses to the assignment (reproduced below) and from class discussion on April 6:
Understanding Gibson’s Purpose & Approach
Many students found Gibson’s 2006 article difficult. As Gibson writes, his article “outlines the basics of a practical generic approach to sustainability assessment (italics mine).” Thus, he analyzes a range of sustainability programs put in place since publication of the Brundtland Commission report (1987); remember that the Brundtland report did not come with specific assessment criteria, but was an intellectual framework outlining the idea of “sustainable development.” (more…)
Sustainability History Project 