Author: mhancock

  • Teaching History with Ourselves as Models

    Here’s a thought – let’s use the family as a model for teaching history. I’m speaking as a citizen of the United States, though I believe this model could be useful elsewhere as well. Let’s take for our example the hypothetically average student. He or she belongs to an “average” family of mom, dad, 2.5…

  • Nomads and Nomadism

    In this post I will offer a few lighthearted challenges some common concepts and ideologies that I have encountered during my education. This is not to say that I perceive a deeper knowledge inside my own brain than exists in the outside world, but only that one should be able to throw certain logical queries…