All the World’s a Schoolhouse

I recently attended a lecture at Grand Valley State University called “Cultural Mobility: The Strange Case of Shakspeare’s Cardenio“, by Stephen Greenblatt, a professor at Harvard University who specializes in Shakespeare.  Greenblatt co-authored a “Shakespearean work” based on the lost play Cardenio in order to emphasize the idea that Shakespearean techniques are applicable throughout time and various cultural [...]

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My mind is still set on the account of the teacher who traveled to Cameroon and had to teach without textbooks, as I previously mentioned.  I started to search for ideas for teaching without textbooks, and as usual, the internet provided me with some insight.  Unfortunately, a lot of this insight is only applicable to [...]

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I just finished reading an intriguing article that threw me back into the heart of Africa. I imagined myself teaching with a few ancient textbooks, or no textbooks at all, in jam-packed classrooms like those I visited in Uganda. The concept of teaching abroad is, well, a broad topic….pun intended…the opportunities, adventures, and nightmares awaiting [...]

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