Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Martin Peretz, instructor in Social Studies, who will teach the course, explained that "it will deal with the implicit assumptions, value orientations and ideological implications of some selected ways of thinking about society and history." The approach, he continued, will be similar to Social Studies 10 and will examine "the predispositions and uses of theory...
...Salaam, accessible only by ferry or five circuitous miles of dirt road. I crossed the ferry for the first time in June, 1964, a little bedraggled from a 24-hour bus trip from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam and very curious about what it would be like to teach there. A man in a Volkswagen, who turned out to be a West German trade unionist and Kivukoni's tutor of industrial relations, spotted me as the new tutor of sociology and gave me a lift to the college...
Through the course of the year some of my generalizations were discarded. Those that remained were reinforced with facts and Tanzanian examples. I left in June, 1965, feeling that I was just beginning to teach a useful course, but I had enjoyed trying "to build the nation" and was grateful for the chance to see what my education was good for. When I arrived back at Harvard in the fall, I had the satisfaction of seeing some results of my teaching. In the course of the summer, some of my Kivukoni students had already run for, and been elected...
...past six years, a small committee in the basement of the Phillips Brooks House has been carrying on a unique and exciting project in international education called Volunteer Teachers for Africa. Each year, V.T.A. (formerly known as Project Tanganyika) sends a dozen or more Harvard and Radcliffe students to teach for twelve months in East African schools, community centers, and refugee camps. And each year former project members return to Harvard to proselytize for the next group to follow...
...will also teach the spring term of German 75, replacing Bernhard Blume, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture. Blume is retiring after this year...