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What Happens When Students Take Over the Class with Mark Carnes | Ep. 12
What really happened in 1945? Explore how students grapple with historical events and figures to understand their distinctness and uniqueness. In this episode of Heterodox Out Loud, host John Tomasi interviews Professor Mark Carnes of Barnard College. Professor Carnes talks about his innovative approach to teaching history, which he calls "reacting to the past." He explains how this method challenges traditional teaching by immersing students in historical contexts through Live-Action Role-Playing (LARP).
Professor Carnes shares the components of this approach, its impact on students' engagement, the complexity of character roles, and the unique insights it generates. By making history come alive in a way that traditional teaching methods may not achieve, "reacting to the past" provides a unique and engaging way to learn about the past.
In This Episode:
- Teaching history through role-playing games
- Engaging students in historical complexities
- Adoption of live-action role-playing games
- Connecting with historical figures through gameplay
- The transformative power of immersive learning
Find out more about The Reacting Consortium here: https://reactingconsortium.org/
Find out more about Mark here: https://barnard.edu/profiles/mark-c-carnes
About Mark Carnes:
Mark Carnes received his B.A. from Harvard and Ph.D. from Columbia. For the first half of his career, he was a very conventional historian, General Editor of the 17-million-word American National Biography (Oxford), and author or editor of dozens of books on American history. But around the turn of the century, he pioneered the Reacting to the Past program, where students played complex games set in the past, their roles informed by important texts. He has co-authored six games in the Reacting series, published by the University of North Carolina Press, and is the author of Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College (Harvard, 2014). He teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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What really happened in 1945? Explore how students grapple with historical events and figures to understand their distinctness and uniqueness. In this episode of Heterodox Out Loud, host John Tomasi interviews Professor Mark Carnes of Barnard College. Professor Carnes talks about his innovative approach to teaching history, which he calls "reacting to the past." He explains how this method challenges traditional teaching by immersing students in historical contexts through Live-Action Role-Playing (LARP).
Professor Carnes shares the components of this approach, its impact on students' engagement, the complexity of character roles, and the unique insights it generates. By making history come alive in a way that traditional teaching methods may not achieve, "reacting to the past" provides a unique and engaging way to learn about the past.
In This Episode:
- Teaching history through role-playing games
- Engaging students in historical complexities
- Adoption of live-action role-playing games
- Connecting with historical figures through gameplay
- The transformative power of immersive learning
Find out more about The Reacting Consortium here: https://reactingconsortium.org/
Find out more about Mark here: https://barnard.edu/profiles/mark-c-carnes
About Mark Carnes:
Mark Carnes received his B.A. from Harvard and Ph.D. from Columbia. For the first half of his career, he was a very conventional historian, General Editor of the 17-million-word American National Biography (Oxford), and author or editor of dozens of books on American history. But around the turn of the century, he pioneered the Reacting to the Past program, where students played complex games set in the past, their roles informed by important texts. He has co-authored six games in the Reacting series, published by the University of North Carolina Press, and is the author of Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College (Harvard, 2014). He teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Follow Heterodox Academy on:
Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Fax5Dy
Facebook: https://bit.ly/3PMYxfw
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/48IYeuJ
Instagram: https://bit.ly/46HKfUg
Substack: https://bit.ly/48IhjNF
🔗 Find out more about Heterodox Academy at: https://linktr.ee/heterodoxoutloud
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