Posts that explore where learning happens and how the classroom experience is shaped when incorporating marginalized philosophers.
We are happy to announce that our pre-college lesson plans are now available. These lesson plans feature Project Vox philosophers who made important contributions to ethical, political, scientific and literary debates that are commonly taught in high-school English Language Arts and social studies courses. Each lesson enables students to engage in philosophical inquiry, helps sharpen […]
This year, Project Vox is expanding its educational outreach, working to bring marginalized figures from the history of philosophy beyond college campuses and into high school classrooms. As part of that effort, Project Vox invited eight teachers from local middle and high schools to Bostock Library on Duke’s West Campus for its first-ever Teacher Development […]
This post is part of our Behind the Scenes and Project Vox Classroom blog series. For many years, Project Vox has offered teaching resources focused on undergraduate classrooms. Beginning this year, we’re expanding that work, with the aim of reaching high school classrooms, too. Project Vox’s Education & Outreach team has begun developing lesson plans […]
In this Project Vox Classroom post, Michael Vazquez discusses the way he pairs Astell and various philosophers of education, ethics, and race for his students. Astell’s presence in the classroom, Vazquez says, prompts students to reflect on their own assumptions about the role and future of education. “If all Men are born free, how is […]
This semester, many of our undergraduate team members are registered for a course focusing on the research methods of Project Vox. Dana Hogan and Yasemin Altun led the students through a semester of learning the ways that we train students to write for a public audience, how to conduct research in philosophy, and how to collaborate on a […]
This semester, many of our undergraduate team members are registered for a course focusing on the research methods of Project Vox. Dana Hogan and Yasemin Altun are leading the students through a semester of learning the ways that we train students to write for a public audience, how to conduct research in philosophy, and how […]
Sophia He and Laura Petersen’s post is part of our Project Vox Classroom blog series. What is Project Nota’s Story? Sophia He: In a conversation with my friend Skye Shirley, founder and executive director of Lupercal, a reading group for women and gender non-binary Latinists, I learned about Laura Cereta, a 15th-century Renaissance humanist. She […]