John Osborne and Christine Bombaro (’93) co-wrote “Learning to Read the Signs,” for the February 2010 issue of The History Teacher. The article explains the pedagogical value of a mock trial that Bombaro implemented in her first-year seminar at Dickinson with Osborne’s assistance which involved students in the seminar solving a murder mystery based upon the novel An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998) by Iain Pears. Osborne and Bombaro demonstrate how well-designed mock trials can help students achieve high-level learning goals with a degree of memorable creativity. You can read the article Learning to Read Signs here as a PDF attachment.
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The History Department at Dickinson College provides courses in all areas of world history and with historians who employ a wide array of interdisciplinary and multi-media approaches. All History majors at Dickinson experience a core sequence of methods classes, beginning with the Introduction to Historical Methodology in History 204, continuing to Historiography and Advanced Historical Methods (History 304) and culminating with History 404, a capstone senior seminar.Blogroll
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