Since 2021, in my “Book History in Practice” class at the University of Toronto, I have given an assignment I call “material experiments.” The most basic articulation of the assignment (included below in full) is that students are asked to choose a material feature of books, manuscripts, or printed artifacts, and conduct an at-home experiment of their choice in making something using that material practice.
Tag: pedagogy
Revamping Hobson-Jobson
The Dictionary Project Assignment is from my upper-division class “Novel in India.” One of the university’s few offerings on South Asia, the class attracts English, History, and Anthropology, and Political Science majors, and occasionally Indian-heritage students.
A framing question of the class is: “can a language – English—and a genre –the novel – that were imported to India by British colonialists be ‘indigenized’?
Welcome Back to SHARP in the Classroom!
Our new SHARP in the Classroom editor, Rebecca Baumann, shares this re-introduction to our pedagogy section and discusses our expectations for new submissions.
Find Something and Bring It Back
With the “Find Something & Bring it Back” assignment, students in literature survey courses familiarize themselves with online databases of…
Open forum: pandemic pedagogy?
Teaching is nothing if not having questions and trying to get our students to ask yet more questions. With each…