{"id":2264,"date":"2016-01-26T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2016-01-26T13:44:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T13:44:02","slug":"and-were-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2016\/01\/26\/and-were-off\/","title":{"rendered":"And we&#8217;re off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/01\/Dougherty.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2265\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/01\/Dougherty-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"Dougherty\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/01\/Dougherty-300x156.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/01\/Dougherty-768x399.jpg 768w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/01\/Dougherty-1024x533.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Watkinson helped jump-start the first day of classes by hosting Jack Dougherty&#8217;s EDUC 300 class last night until 9:00pm. The students were asked to analyze several examples of 19th-century common school textbooks from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/LITC\/Watkinson\/collections\/Pages\/Education.aspx\"><strong>collection of Henry Barnard<\/strong><\/a>, which was bought by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905 and made its way into Trinity&#8217;s hands when the Watkinson was given to the College in 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Questions put to the students as they perused various readers, geographies, primers, speakers, spellers, and even a &#8220;confederate arithmetic,&#8221; included &#8220;what do textbooks reveal about the ideology of the authors and of the common school advocates?&#8221;, &#8220;how do they portray human nature?&#8221;, &#8220;what do they reveal about religion and education?&#8221;, and &#8220;what do they reveal about everyday life inside 19th-century common schools?&#8221; (i.e., classroom organization, student-teacher interaction, and pedagogical methods).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watkinson helped jump-start the first day of classes by hosting Jack Dougherty&#8217;s EDUC 300 class last night until 9:00pm. The students were asked to analyze several examples of 19th-century common school textbooks from the collection of Henry Barnard, which was bought by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905 and made its way into Trinity&#8217;s hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,5,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264"}],"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=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}