Professor of education, history, & folklore. Reconciling Societal Divisions & Memories Lab. Researching how we feel about the past & how the past makes us feel
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Why we need to talk about virtual reality in history education. 🧵1/22
No, history students will not go back in time in the metaverse.
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I love my students so much. This just happened…
Student: do you want to see my hedgehog?
Me: UM YES (expecting a picture)
Student: *pulls an actual hedgehog out of her purse*
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Alex Colville was a painter in the 50's - 70's that developed his own style of realism.
This dude was painting in PS2 era style graphics.
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New publication! #LatineNarratives Historias de Una Pandemia - Journal of Folklore and Education #Historiasdeunapandemia #OralHistory jfepublications.org/article/…
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Volume 9 of the Journal of Folklore and Education. "Death, Loss, and Remembrance Across Cultures." Find this peer-reviewed, multimedia publication at buff.ly/3dAgIpJ #folklore #journal #museums
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It's dangerously close to a parody of New Historicism but I was genuinely fascinated when a student busted out a chart of rapid fluctuations in plum prices during this discussion of William Carlos Williams.
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Baked into the discussion of student debt is the idea that the function of education is to prepare someone to work, that it is a ticket for the ride of employment. This is a dangerously toxic notion that deserves no respect. Education is learning, literally anything.
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friend: hey, any book recs?
me: well, this one ruined my life and emotionally scarred me
friend: oh I’ll steer clear then
me: …you misunderstand
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Tipu’s Tiger, an automaton that was made for Tipu Sultan of Mysore in India during the 1700s. The 68-inch long device shows a tiger killing a British redcoat, representing the British East India Company, the enemy of the Sultan.
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The practice of kissing books is ancient, and often leaves traces we can still see today. These are the opening words of Genesis from a 13th century French folio Bible used in the Languedoc, stained & smudged where the owner routinely kissed it each time he read it.
It's #WorldKissingDay, so naturally we're thinking about kissing books.
This large, battered missal contains the texts a priest would need in order to perform the Mass.
See the square of parchment beneath the engraving on the left? That's for kissing!
ALT Missal printed partly on silk, with bookmarks (1518)
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Experience Emirati cultural traditions at @SmithsonianFolk, June 22-27 and June 30-July 4. From falconry demonstrations to poetry & musical performances, explore all the UAE has to offer in “Living Landscape | Living Memory.” #UAEUSA #2022Folklife
