| FV-50072-05 | Education Programs: Seminars for K-12 Educators | North Dakota State University | The Great Plains from Texas to Saskatchewan: Place, Memory, Identity | 10/1/2005 - 12/31/2006 | $104,417.00 | Thomas | D. | Isern | | | | North Dakota State University | Fargo | ND | 58102-1843 | USA | 2005 | U.S. Regional Studies | Seminars for K-12 Educators | Education Programs | 104417 | 0 | 104417 | 0 | A five-week seminar for fifteen school teachers on the history and culture of the American Great Plains.
This five-week seminar will provide fifteen teacher-participants, along with the seminar director, the opportunity to study in depth four great texts of the Great Plains experience. Two texts--by Walter P. Webb and Willa Cather--represent the First Generation of Great Plains regionalism, which sought cultural autonomy for the region in an increasingly metorpolitan nation. Two texts--by N. Scott Momaday and Wallace Stegner--represent the Second Generation of Great Plains regionalism, which sought personal identity in the Great Plains experience. The seminar is to be directed by a historian who specializes in regional studies. The seminar will convene at North Dakota State University, a land-grant university of the Northern Plains. |