STEM and Teaching German Language and Literature with an Interdisciplinary Approach: 18th-Century Reports by German Jesuit Missionaries in the German Classroom
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| Title: | STEM and Teaching German Language and Literature with an Interdisciplinary Approach: 18th-Century Reports by German Jesuit Missionaries in the German Classroom |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Classen, Albrecht |
| Source: | Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. Spr 2018 51(1):53-62. |
| Availability: | Wiley-Blackwell. 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148. Tel: 800-835-6770; Tel: 781-388-8598; Fax: 781-388-8232; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 10 |
| Publication Date: | 2018 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | STEM Education, Second Language Instruction, German, German Literature, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Environment, History Instruction, Geographic Regions, Local History, Foreign Countries |
| Geographic Terms: | Arizona, Mexico |
| DOI: | 10.1111/tger.12054 |
| ISSN: | 1756-1221 |
| Abstract: | Recent debates about the future of academia have focused primarily on teaching the STEM subjects. This is certainly a valuable call for action, but it also threatens to ignore the significant contributions of the humanities and other fields. This article presents a workable alternative by way of looking at more technical writings by 18th-century German Jesuit missionaries in Sonora (today Mexico and Arizona), which invites a critical analysis of the data provided by those authors about the natural environment and the social conditions and also a thorough examination of "literary" texts at the same time from a humanistic perspective. Those narratives also serve as meaningful documents for all German students in the Southwest because they indicate the importance of the German language for the study of the local history going back almost two hundred years. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2018 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1180838 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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