McCarthy Clip 7
McCarthy Clip 7
Instructional Themes: Closing class; Peer learning; Challenging content; last word; role of the provokers; challenging topic, attending to affective elements
Profiled: Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature, teaches "Stories of Slavery & Freedom" to 16 students at Harvard College.
Clip Length: 2 minutes, 6 seconds (1:52:24-1:54:30)
Clip Context:
- “Stories of Slavery & Freedom,” an undergraduate seminar with 16 students enrolled.
- This course critically examines prevailing narratives of slavery and enslaved people through careful reading of archives and primary sources that speak to the experiences of enslaved people, free African-Americans, and abolitionist allies. McCarthy uses a broad range of pedagogical techniques to facilitate generative, student-centered discussions in this seminar.
- This clip comes at the end of the 2-hour class session as McCarthy and the student provokers (who are leaders in the day’s conversation) wrap up the discussion.
