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Books by Diana Turk

Research paper thumbnail of Teaching Recent Global History: Dialogues Among Historians, Social Studies Teachers and Students (2014)

Papers by Diana Turk

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Disciplining women: Alpha kappa alpha, black counterpublics, and the cultural politics of black sororities, by D. E. Whaley

Research paper thumbnail of Bound By a Mighty Vow

New York University Press eBooks, Mar 17, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Bridges of Memory: Chicago’s First Wave of Black Migration, by T. D. Black, Jr

Research paper thumbnail of Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

The Journal of American History, Mar 1, 2020

Imagine a class exploring and classifying objects like archivists in a museum. Students' thinking... more Imagine a class exploring and classifying objects like archivists in a museum. Students' thinking shifts from observation to inference as items are considered and reconsidered; the teacher guides attention towards concealed, unnoticed, or misunderstood aspects. Sarah Anne Carter's Object Lessons details how nineteenthcentury American teachers used common items as catalysts for learning. Object lessons, in their simplest form, appear as the teacher positions students to analyze and organize. Heuristics were taught and scaffolded, with the intent to teach how to think, not what to remember. Students scrutinized the minutiae for meaning and systematized their findings: natural or assembled, animal or plant, organic or inorganic, to list a few. Learners' abstract thinking generated multifaceted understandings about the origins and avenues of familiar, overlooked objects (Chapters 1 and 2). The history and iterations of this interdisciplinary, inquirybased pedagogy are traced from Old World Europe to antebellum New York and the postbellum South; the reader follows the evolution of object lessons from classrooms into fictional stories and the trade cards, magazine advertisements, and street posters of political campaigns and business adverts (Chapter 3). Carter's book is accessible, evocative, and engaging, much like the objects that form the book's footing. Object Lessons has import for scholars and teachers of distinct disciplines. Carter's work contributes to the fields of American Studies, American history, and the history and foundations of American education. Education foundations researchers will recognize the ingenuity of having students interrogate windows, ladders, chairs, granite, tin, and other everyday objects for interconnections and manifest labor in their construction and relocation. Educational philosophy scholars will appreciate the epistemological and ontological assumptions in an ancestor of cognitive constructivism and sociocultural theory-prior knowledge impacts interpretations of new information; understandings are contextually contingent and emergent; evocative catalysts coupled with age-appropriate scaffolding sparks criticality; and through observation and reflection, teachers can better understand how students

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now, by J. Glazer-Raymo

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920, by M. R. Klapper

Research paper thumbnail of Single sex education in K-12 schools

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Fireweed: A Political Autobiography, by G. Lerner

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book The Story of America: Freedom and Crisis from Settlement to Superpower, by A. Weinstein & D. Rubel

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Teaching History in the Digital Classroom, by D. A. Cantu & W. J. Warren

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Brothers and Sisters Teachers: Diversity in College Fraternities and Sororities, by C. L. Torbenson & G. S. Parks (Eds)

Research paper thumbnail of History of sororities

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the manuscript The American Promise: A History of the United States, vols I and II, edited by J. L. Roark et al

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book The lost boys of zeta psi: A historical archaeology of masculinity at a university fraternity, by L. A. Wilkie

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945, by M. R. Sanua

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, by C. Berkin

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the manuscript The Company He Keeps: White College Fraternities, Masculinity, and Power, 1825-1975, by N. Syrett

Research paper thumbnail of Five The soviet union and Eastern Europe: Clashing ideologies: consumer culture and the fall of communism

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in Formerly Men’s Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, ed. by L. Miller-Bernal & S. L. Poulson

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Disciplining women: Alpha kappa alpha, black counterpublics, and the cultural politics of black sororities, by D. E. Whaley

Research paper thumbnail of Bound By a Mighty Vow

New York University Press eBooks, Mar 17, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Bridges of Memory: Chicago’s First Wave of Black Migration, by T. D. Black, Jr

Research paper thumbnail of Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

The Journal of American History, Mar 1, 2020

Imagine a class exploring and classifying objects like archivists in a museum. Students' thinking... more Imagine a class exploring and classifying objects like archivists in a museum. Students' thinking shifts from observation to inference as items are considered and reconsidered; the teacher guides attention towards concealed, unnoticed, or misunderstood aspects. Sarah Anne Carter's Object Lessons details how nineteenthcentury American teachers used common items as catalysts for learning. Object lessons, in their simplest form, appear as the teacher positions students to analyze and organize. Heuristics were taught and scaffolded, with the intent to teach how to think, not what to remember. Students scrutinized the minutiae for meaning and systematized their findings: natural or assembled, animal or plant, organic or inorganic, to list a few. Learners' abstract thinking generated multifaceted understandings about the origins and avenues of familiar, overlooked objects (Chapters 1 and 2). The history and iterations of this interdisciplinary, inquirybased pedagogy are traced from Old World Europe to antebellum New York and the postbellum South; the reader follows the evolution of object lessons from classrooms into fictional stories and the trade cards, magazine advertisements, and street posters of political campaigns and business adverts (Chapter 3). Carter's book is accessible, evocative, and engaging, much like the objects that form the book's footing. Object Lessons has import for scholars and teachers of distinct disciplines. Carter's work contributes to the fields of American Studies, American history, and the history and foundations of American education. Education foundations researchers will recognize the ingenuity of having students interrogate windows, ladders, chairs, granite, tin, and other everyday objects for interconnections and manifest labor in their construction and relocation. Educational philosophy scholars will appreciate the epistemological and ontological assumptions in an ancestor of cognitive constructivism and sociocultural theory-prior knowledge impacts interpretations of new information; understandings are contextually contingent and emergent; evocative catalysts coupled with age-appropriate scaffolding sparks criticality; and through observation and reflection, teachers can better understand how students

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now, by J. Glazer-Raymo

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920, by M. R. Klapper

Research paper thumbnail of Single sex education in K-12 schools

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Fireweed: A Political Autobiography, by G. Lerner

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book The Story of America: Freedom and Crisis from Settlement to Superpower, by A. Weinstein & D. Rubel

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Teaching History in the Digital Classroom, by D. A. Cantu & W. J. Warren

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Brothers and Sisters Teachers: Diversity in College Fraternities and Sororities, by C. L. Torbenson & G. S. Parks (Eds)

Research paper thumbnail of History of sororities

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the manuscript The American Promise: A History of the United States, vols I and II, edited by J. L. Roark et al

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book The lost boys of zeta psi: A historical archaeology of masculinity at a university fraternity, by L. A. Wilkie

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945, by M. R. Sanua

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, by C. Berkin

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the manuscript The Company He Keeps: White College Fraternities, Masculinity, and Power, 1825-1975, by N. Syrett

Research paper thumbnail of Five The soviet union and Eastern Europe: Clashing ideologies: consumer culture and the fall of communism

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the book Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in Formerly Men’s Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000, ed. by L. Miller-Bernal & S. L. Poulson

Research paper thumbnail of Bound by a mighty vow: sisterhood and women's fraternities, 1870-1920

Choice Reviews Online, Nov 1, 2004