Volume 01 - Number 1 - June 1994
Pages: 1 - 8
Lentz, B. (1994). “Teaching psychohistory and psychohistorically” workshop. Clio’s Psyche, 1(1), 8.
“Teaching Psychohistory and Psychohistorically” Workshop
Abstract
This article announces a workshop, “Teaching Psychohistory and Psychohistorically,” sponsored by the Psychohistory Forum for the International Psychohistorical Association’s Seventeenth Annual Convention, held June 8-10, 1994, in New York City. The author presents the session, led by Paul H. Elovitz, as a way for instructors to teach new materials, view familiar materials differently, and engage students in varied ways. The article notes Elovitz’s teaching at Temple, Rutgers, and Fairleigh Dickinson universities and Ramapo College, and his writings on psychohistorical teaching and the Holocaust in the classroom. Participants are asked to bring teaching problems, experiences, and syllabi to exchange. The workshop is described as concerned more with the practice and methods of teaching than with theory. It is to cover principles for teaching psychohistory and for bringing psychohistorical perspectives into other courses. If time allows, it will also cover teaching the Holocaust with survivors and video such as Schindler’s List. The Forum hopes the workshop will lead to networking, syllabus sharing, a permanent teaching study group, and contributions to Clio’s Psyche.
classroom, energizing the classroom, diversity, instructors, materials, Paul H. Elovitz, psychohistory, student-teacher relationship, teaching methods
Teaching is hard work and even outstanding instructors cannot rest on their laurels. Students are quick to know about and react to boredom or complacency. Three ways to energize your classroom are to teach new materials, view old materials differently and engage the students in diverse manners.
We can help you learn and apply all three methods at our workshop, “Teaching Psychohistory and Psychohistorically” sponsored by The Psychohistory Forum and held at the International Psychohistorical Association’s Seventeenth Annual Convention, June 8-10, 1994, in New York City. Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, who has taught for over thirty years at Temple, Rutgers, and Fairleigh Dickinson universities as well as at Ramapo College, will lead the workshop. Dr. Elovitz is the author of “Psychohistorical Teaching” and “The Holocaust in the Classroom.” He is the recipient of Ramapo’s alumni award for outstanding teaching, leadership and dedication.
We want you to bring your teaching problems and challenges, experiences and even course syllabi (to exchange). Professor Elovitz will introduce you to some principles and methods of teaching psychohistory, vitalizing other courses with psychohistorical insights and engaging students in unique ways. This is a genuine workshop devoted more to the practice and methods of teaching than the theory. If time allows Dr. Elovitz will provide materials on how he teaches the Holocaust using psychohistorical materials, survivors and video materials like Schindler’s List
The Psychohistory Forum hopes this workshop will lead to teachers’ increasing their networking, sharing of syllabi, forming a permanent teaching study group, and contributing to Clio’s Psyche.
Please advise a colleague about the workshop. If you have any questions or an interest in sharing some of your own psychohistory teaching and research experiences at the workshop or through its resultant projects I’m happy to discuss them with you. Contact me at phone: (905) 737-8745 / fax: (905) 738-1462 / mail: 285 Emerald Isle Court, Richmond Hil Ontario L4E3 ($.40 U.S. postage to Canada).
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How to cite this article
Lentz, B. (1994). “Teaching psychohistory and psychohistorically” workshop. Clio’s Psyche, 1(1), 8.
