Word: higonnet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goelet Professor of French History Patrice L. Higonnet '58 raised eyebrows last week in the first lecture of History 10b--the second half of a full-year European history survey course--by discussing issues of gender and sexuality and showing explicit slides of genitalia...
...Higonnet argues that he has two interconnected goals: to provide students with a mastery of historical fact and detail while acknowledging the "postmodernist sensibility" in history...
...according to Higonnet, the problem is bigger than that. "Somehow the sensibility of modern life presents problems for historians," he said...
...Higonnet's concerns are valid ones, and the way he addresses those concerns deserves to be praised. Higonnet has expressed his awareness of the trade-off between tradition and innovation. He apparently understands the risks involved in his approach...
...Higonnet said he wants to move away from traditional methods of teaching history...