{"pk":40348,"title":"Surviving and Thriving in Secondary Schools: A Response to the Cluster on “Medieval Studies and Secondary Education”","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This essay responds to the cluster “Medieval Studies and Secondary Education” by suggesting that we shift our attention away from our understandable, but often unproductive, anxieties about the obsolescence of Medieval Studies within school curricula and towards the promotion of the professional health and intellectual pleasure of the exhausted and harried secondary school teacher. In addition to lauding the efforts of medievalists to enhance and expand the appeal and relevance of our disciplines through immersive activities and the provincialization of Europe, this response explores and evaluates the feasibility of proposals to offer online and in-person summer seminars on medieval topics, to augment easily accessible online resources for teaching the Middle Ages, and to develop mentorship structures within universities and professional societies that connect prospective and practicing teachers with medievalists in educator preparation programs.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"secondary schools"},{"word":"Medieval Studies"},{"word":"pedagogy"},{"word":"Mentorship"}],"section":"Conversations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4814219v","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alex","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mueller","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Massachusetts Boston","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2023-04-14T03:51:33+10:00","date_accepted":"2023-04-14T03:51:33+10:00","date_published":"2023-01-01T11:00:00+11:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ncs_pedagogyandprofession/article/40348/galley/30335/download/"}]}