From cornell.14@osu.edu Thu Sep 11 13:47:45 1997
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 17:17:04 -0400
From: "Saul A. Cornell" <cornell.14@osu.edu>
To: conference@h-net.msu.edu
Subject: Proposal

Please consider the following brief proposal. The birth of  my second child
this month as turned things upside down.  Consider it a downpayment on a
more detailed prospectus.

"Text, Hyper-text, and Post-Modern history: The new-media challenge to
traditional history."


This paper explores the impact of  new media, including  multi-media, for
traditional history. Traditional models of historical inquiry posit that
scholarly research drives innovation in teaching.  In keeping with the
post-modern character of so much new media, this traditional hiearchy is
being deconstructed in practice in class rooms across the world. The
challenge to traditional print and linnear narrative made possible by new
media has created a situation in which the epistemology behind our teaching
practice may be more theoretically sophisticated than that of our
scholarship.  This paper will explore this irony and will draw on examples
from my own use of multi-media in the introductory survey course.


Saul Cornell