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Richard Powers PhD | History
History as sport: Students learn through competitive reenactments.
How do you get students to embrace history? For Professor Richard Gid Powers, it’s all about fun and games.
Powers is founder of CSI’s Reacting to the Past Academy, where students relive historic events in class as part of competitive teams. In one such game, “The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C.,” students play Athenian citizens who meet in the assembly to write a constitution. True to history, students sacrifice a pig to start the meeting, although in this case it’s a stuffed pig.
Students prepare for each game by reading a classic book from the era being studied. As they debate the critical issues of that era, they use quotes and passages from the book to fortify their arguments. Students are even encouraged to wear period costumes.
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