TEACHSOC: Re: Creative Field Trips workshop

[Roberts, Keith]

Sarah:   Morton has given some wonderful ideas. Here are just a few more.   Museums can make great field trips too.  I routinely take my Race/Ethnicity class to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. (a Friday-Sunday trip for us from Indiana), and I have colleagues who use the museum in Cincinnati on the underground railroad and/or the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.  Native American museums re also very powerful--the story is almost always told from the point of view of white academics who control the museums.  Not only is there seldom much sophistication in presentation of various nations or variations in time periods, but the indigenous peoples are rarely expected to be patrons of the museum.  In the southwest, many museums are about the Pueblos or about Dine peoples (Apaches and Navahos), but the displays are all explained in English and sometimes Spanish. (Never mind that something like forty per cent of Apaches do not speak either of those languages.  How does the language that is used legitimate the existence and the importance of such people as visitors to the museum.   In the past our social change course involved a week in Washington D.C. interviewing change agents of various sorts.  The person who teaches Social Class and Inequality has his class spend a day in homeless shelters and meeting with homeless people who have become movement spokespersons.  It is common for a Sociology of Sport class to go to a professional sporting event--with specific patterns they are to observe and analyze in a reflection paper.   Keith        *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *       Keith A. Roberts, Ph.D.      Department of Sociology and Anthropology      Hanover College      Hanover, IN  47243        [EMAIL PROTECTED]      Office Phone: 812/ 866-7353   I have been asked to organize a workshop called "A Look Beyond the Classroom: Creative Class Trips that Bring Sociology to the Everyday."   Anyone have any imput?   I take my classes to a local shopping mall to search for evidence as to whether or not we are a culture that supports "family values" or violent behavior.   Sarah Murray William Paterson U. of NJ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to teachsoc@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---