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Distance Education and the Long Bus Ride Home:
Author(s) -
Tyson Timothy B.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1525/tran.2007.15.2.135
Subject(s) - assertion , trips architecture , experiential learning , field (mathematics) , sociology , field trip , history , pedagogy , political science , engineering , computer science , law , transport engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics , programming language
This article ponders Tracy Rone's assertion that field trips offer an immediate and compelling methodology for understanding our pasts and our relationships to those histories. It examines the way taking students to historic sites in diverse learning communities can facilitate what Rone calls “an intensive, experiential history lesson” and can give students deeper understandings of history and lasting access to their own learning.