Laboratory
Metaphor: “I don’t hold the knowledge in my classroom, it’s a laboratory for students and the educator alike, to share and create ideas together”
Why: I take the concept of the science laboratory and apply it to the humanities classroom. In a science lab, experimentation, hypothesizing, testing, and creativity takes place. The humanities lecture hall has often been viewed as a professor standing at the front of the room, gatekeeping knowledge. However, I like to adapt the laboratory metaphor. My students can and should correct me when I get dates and facts wrong, they should ask questions, they should test solutions. In the laboratory setting, I am able to learn from my students and they from me.
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