{"id":1102,"date":"2013-01-29T02:05:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2013-01-29T02:05:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:05:58","slug":"old-textbooks-used-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2013\/01\/29\/old-textbooks-used-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Old textbooks used again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/01\/IMG_2500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1103\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/01\/IMG_2500-1024x472.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/01\/IMG_2500-1024x472.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/01\/IMG_2500-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>Tonight we hosted Jack Dougherty&#8217;s EDUC 300 course entitled Education Reform: Past &amp; Present.\u00a0 The students spent an hour or so examining an array of titles from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/LITC\/Watkinson\/collections\/Pages\/Education.aspx\">Henry Barnard collection<\/a>.\u00a0 Among those the students used were McGuffey&#8217;s readers and spellers from the 1850s; geographies by Jesse Olney from the 1840s and &#8217;50s, and those of David Camp and Joseph Colton of the 1860s and &#8217;70s; Samuel Goodrich&#8217;s <em>The young American; or, Book of government and law<\/em> (1842); and several readers for both young men and women form the 1840s and &#8217;50s.<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case, more interesting conversations come from pairing the students up with a book and giving them a list of questions to answer, rather than standing in front of them and talking for an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we hosted Jack Dougherty&#8217;s EDUC 300 course entitled Education Reform: Past &amp; Present.\u00a0 The students spent an hour or so examining an array of titles from the Henry Barnard collection.\u00a0 Among those the students used were McGuffey&#8217;s readers and spellers from the 1850s; geographies by Jesse Olney from the 1840s and &#8217;50s, and those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}