Rika Burnham, Elliot Kai-Kee, Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience. J. Paul Getty Museum; 1st Edition edition (April 19, 2011) Reviewed by Anita Nikkanen, former Departmental Teaching Fellow of Classics and Comparative Literature Teaching in the Art Museum is, as the name makes plain, a book about teaching and learning with and about the art objects…
In this four-part series, Departmental Teaching Fellows Anita Nikkanen (Comparative Literature), Erin Blevins (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology), and Meredith Schweig (Music) reflect on the why, how, and what of teaching with objects. These reflections grew out of “Teaching with Tangible Things: Museum Collections in the Classroom,” a workshop they offered at the Bok Center’s 2012…
In this four-part series, Departmental Teaching Fellows Anita Nikkanen (Comparative Literature), Erin Blevins (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology), and Meredith Schweig (Music) reflect on the why, how, and what of teaching with objects. These reflections grew out of “Teaching with Tangible Things: Museum Collections in the Classroom,” a workshop they offered at the Bok Center’s 2012…
In this four-part series, Departmental Teaching Fellows Anita Nikkanen (Comparative Literature), Erin Blevins (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology), and Meredith Schweig (Music) reflect on the why, how, and what of teaching with objects. These reflections grew out of “Teaching with Tangible Things: Museum Collections in the Classroom,” a workshop they offered at the Bok Center’s 2012…
Congratulations to the first graduating class in the Bok Center’s new Teaching Certificate Program! Erin Blevins, OEB Louis Epstein, Music Allison Gale, EPS Odile Harter, English Arnold Ho, Psych Sadaf Jaffer, NELC Matthew Mugmon, Music Anita Nikkanen, Classics & Comp Lit Sean O’Reilly, History Asher Orkaby, History Ruxandra Paul, Government Shauna Shames, Government Victor Shnayder,…
In this four-part series, Departmental Teaching Fellows Anita Nikkanen (Comparative Literature), Erin Blevins (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology), and Meredith Schweig (Music) reflect on the why, how, and what of teaching with objects. These reflections grew out of “Teaching with Tangible Things: Museum Collections in the Classroom,” a workshop they offered at the Bok Center’s 2012…
We’re long overdue for celebrating some of the great work done by the Bok Center’s trusty Departmental Teaching Fellows. Here are just a few examples of the diverse work undertaken by these graduate students: In the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Naseem Surhio organized several workshops this semester, including a “Reflections on Teaching” workshop…
Today’s guest post comes from Matthew Mugmon, a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology, and former Departmental TF for Music. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t let my students use laptops in sections. Wait — I’m not a technology curmudgeon. If I were, I wouldn’t have been so excited to attend “The Digital Classroom,” a session at the…
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