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Title: Editor's Introduction
Author : Honors in Practice
Release Date : January 01, 2011
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 45 KB

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John Zubizarreta of Columbia College leads off this volume of Honors in Practice with a revised version of his presidential address at the 2010 annual NCHC conference in Kansas City, Missouri. His speech, entitled "A Penny's Worth of Reflections on Honors Education," was, in a characteristic honors mode, interactive. He asked the audience to participate with him in enacting the "challenge, risk, creativity, collaboration, reflection, inquiry, [and] community" of honors education. Zubizarreta, both in his speech and in this essay, describes and illustrates honors education, the NCHC, and its conferences as embodying the "rough magic" of Shakespeare's Prospero. Kateryna A. R. Schray provides a fine example of rough magic in her essay "Into the Afterlife and Back with Honors Students," which is the first of three essays in this volume that describe collaborative student projects in honors courses. Schray describes a team-taught honors seminar--Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Literature and Culture--at Marshall University. The primary focus of the essay is a series of collaborative projects in which, for instance, students designed stage sets for hell in a nursing home, prison, and big box store. Readers seeking new ideas for class projects in the arts and humanities will find imaginative ones here.