This Week: BLACK ANTS AND BUDDHISTS and more…
January 25th, 2007
We talk with teacher extraordinaire Mary Cowhey about her book, BLACK ANTS AND BUDDHISTS: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades.
Also, we have a sneak preview of a conversation with THE ENCHANTED CIRCLE THEATER playwrights, Priscilla Hellweg and Rachel Kuhn Daviau.
What would a classroom look like if understanding and respecting differences in race, culture, beliefs, and opinions were at its heart? That’s what Mary Cowhey’s Peace Class in Northampton, MA is based on. Mary Cowhey teaches first and second graders to think critically and ask questions — and in that process to expand their understanding of the world and how they can help make it a better place.
And the Enchanted Circle Theater brings back THE SKINNER SERVANTS TOUR, their play about class relations in Holyoke, Massachusetts in the early 20th century. It starts this season’s run on January 26 at the Wisteriahurst Museum in Holyoke. We’ll hear a bit of the play tonight and an excerpt from a discussion with Daviau and Hellweg on creating historical plays.
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