Creative Pedagogies: Approaches to the Commonplace Book (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Sarah E. Parker; Andrea Silva
Organizer Affiliation
Jacksonville Univ.; York College, CUNY
Presider Name
Sarah E. Parker
Paper Title 1
A Case for Student Commonplace Books in Brit Lit I
Presenter 1 Name
Dana Schumacher-Schmidt
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Siena Heights Univ.
Paper Title 2
Opportunities with Omeka: Commonplacing the Early Tudor Reading Experience
Presenter 2 Name
Alison Harper
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Rochester
Paper Title 3
Poetry at Play: Commonplace Books in a Game-Themed Survey
Presenter 3 Name
Nora L. Corrigan
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Mississippi Univ. for Women
Paper Title 4
Productive Disruptions: Using Commonplace Books to Resist Eurocentrism
Presenter 4 Name
Andrea Silva
Paper Title 5
The VCU Commonplace Books
Presenter 5 Name
Joshua Eckhardt
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
Paper Title 6
Analogue Commonplace Books in a Digital Age
Presenter 6 Name
Colleen E. Kennedy
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Univ. of Iowa
Paper Title 7
Questions toward Better Commonplace Books
Presenter 7 Name
Matthew Harrison
Presenter 7 Affiliation
West Texas A&M Univ.
Start Date
10-5-2018 10:00 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 1005
Description
This roundtable will include seven speakers who will each present practical strategies for using medieval and early modern reading practices in the modern classroom. This session proposes that the use of commonplacing, a reading practice that involved active note-taking, can be especially useful to the modern student encountering the challenges of reading medieval and early modern texts, which sometimes prove intimidating or seem foreign to students. At this particular juncture, when students are facing information overload in forms that often distract from the practice of reading, commonplacing provides students with innovative ways to focus on and make sense of classroom texts. Additionally, commonplacing offers students a sustained practice of experiential learning, encouraging the development a knowledge-creation community that aims to question textual authority and actively join critical conversations as confident scholars. Papers will address student agency in commonplacing assignments; the use of specific model commonplace books such as that of Richard Hill; online platforms such as Omeka, Twitter, and Storify; specific commoplacing strategies such as tête-bêche structure and found materials; commonplacing in conjunction with course themes such as play or revenge; using commonplace books to resist Eurocentrism; and troubleshooting potential problems in commonplace assignments.
Sarah E. Parker
Creative Pedagogies: Approaches to the Commonplace Book (A Roundtable)
Fetzer 1005
This roundtable will include seven speakers who will each present practical strategies for using medieval and early modern reading practices in the modern classroom. This session proposes that the use of commonplacing, a reading practice that involved active note-taking, can be especially useful to the modern student encountering the challenges of reading medieval and early modern texts, which sometimes prove intimidating or seem foreign to students. At this particular juncture, when students are facing information overload in forms that often distract from the practice of reading, commonplacing provides students with innovative ways to focus on and make sense of classroom texts. Additionally, commonplacing offers students a sustained practice of experiential learning, encouraging the development a knowledge-creation community that aims to question textual authority and actively join critical conversations as confident scholars. Papers will address student agency in commonplacing assignments; the use of specific model commonplace books such as that of Richard Hill; online platforms such as Omeka, Twitter, and Storify; specific commoplacing strategies such as tête-bêche structure and found materials; commonplacing in conjunction with course themes such as play or revenge; using commonplace books to resist Eurocentrism; and troubleshooting potential problems in commonplace assignments.
Sarah E. Parker