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Kolleen Guy, on teaching cultural history as history of literacy

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October 31, 2016
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Denney Hall 311

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Add to Calendar 2016-10-31 11:30:00 2016-10-31 13:00:00 Kolleen Guy, on teaching cultural history as history of literacy Time: 3:30-5 p.m. Event Host: Literacy Studies and History Short Description: What do a sixteenth-century Italian miller and a twenty-first century elementary school student have in common? This lecture will explore an experiment in service learning with literacy as the object of service in a course on European cultural history. What do a sixteenth-century Italian miller and a twenty-first century elementary school student have in common?  This lecture will explore an experiment in service learning with literacy as the object of service in a course on European cultural history. Kolleen Guy is Associate Professor of History at University of Texas, San Antonio. Her talk will look at how working with a contemporary literacy in the public schools helped students experience reading as an oral and collective activity, leading to insights about past and present communities.This event is co-sponsored by Literacy Studies and the Department of History.  For more information, visit Literacy Studies@OSU. Denney Hall 311 College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Time: 3:30-5 p.m.
Event Host: Literacy Studies and History
Short Description: What do a sixteenth-century Italian miller and a twenty-first century elementary school student have in common? This lecture will explore an experiment in service learning with literacy as the object of service in a course on European cultural history.


What do a sixteenth-century Italian miller and a twenty-first century elementary school student have in common?  This lecture will explore an experiment in service learning with literacy as the object of service in a course on European cultural history. Kolleen Guy is Associate Professor of History at University of Texas, San Antonio. Her talk will look at how working with a contemporary literacy in the public schools helped students experience reading as an oral and collective activity, leading to insights about past and present communities.

This event is co-sponsored by Literacy Studies and the Department of History.  For more information, visit Literacy Studies@OSU.

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