Welcome to the on-line home of the W.E.B. Du Bois Teaching Workshop, to be held Fall 2008 (date TBA soon) at Houston Christian High School. The workshop is a companion seminar to Edward J. Blum's lecture on W.E.B Du Bois and religion at the University of Houston, at 10 a.m., Thursday, April 3, 2008. Blum's lecture title is "The Noose and the Cross: Race, Religion, and the Redemption of Violence in the Works of W.E.B. Du Bois."
The African American Studies Department and the History Department at UH-Central are sponsoring Blum's lecture.
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Both the lecture and workshop are FREE. The lecture will be in Agnes Arnold Hall 630 (find a campus map here) at UH, and the workshop will take place in the Library at Houston Christian High School (find a map here).
An assortment of breakfast foods and coffee will be provided for all workshop participants. Secondary instructors may earn up to 6 hours of professional development credit at the teaching workshop.
REGISTER for the workshop by emailing Edward Carson and Phil Sinitiere. In order to facilitate planning, please confirm your participation by sending an email by Thursday, April 3, 2008, to the following addresses:
philsinitiere [at] gmail [dot] com, sinitiere [at] sbcglobal [dot] net, carson [at] houstonchristianhs [dot] org, carsonduboi [at] gmail [dot] com
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Who is W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)? The brilliant author of his justly famous Souls of Black Folk (1903)? The tireless activist who co-founded the NAACP? An avowed socialist and communist investigated by the FBI? The thoughtful editor and steady writer for The Crisis between 1910 and 1934? Steely sage or fiery prophet who raged against racial oppression, Jim Crow segregation, and economic exploitation? More concretely, how does one teach Du Bois--in U.S. history? In literature? In world history? In sociology? In theology?
These questions and many more form the bedrock of the W.E.B. Du Bois Teaching Workshop. Organized by historian and author Edward Blum (San Diego State University), and secondary history teachers Edward Carson (Houston Christian High School) and Phil Sinitiere (Second Baptist School), this workshop seeks to foster critical discussion and offer innovative strategies for teaching Du Bois in particular and U.S social, cultural, political, and religious history more generally.
In this participatory and collaborative seminar we request that instructors bring a copy of one relevant primary document that they use (or have used) in their teaching. It is our hope that through each participant discussing teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches, we can all draw from collective experience and wisdom and in the end become more effective educators.