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Item Creating Connection to Nature: A Curriculum Project Combining Interpretation with Adventure Education(2019-10-14) Bartels, TrishaThe purpose of this project was to create a curriculum that connects participants to nature by incorporating elements of both adventure education (i.e. mountain biking, kayaking, hiking, etc.) into an interpretive program, as well as creating nature connectedness (attentional deployment, sounds, identification, etc.) within participants. As needed, it can be adjusted for experience level of participants and knowledge of local ecology dependent on the provider. The goal of adding these two subjects of outdoor education together, was to enhance nature connectedness, comfortability, skills, knowledge, and behavior within participants. The theoretical basis for this program was based upon a nature connectedness, interpretation, and adventure education. These theories are: Nature Connectedness (Schultz, 2002); Constructivist Learning (Dewey, 1938; Piaget, 1972; Vygotsky, 1980); 15 Principles for Interpretation (Beck & Cable, 2011 p.17); Optimal Arousal Learning (Berlyne, 1968 & Eysenck, 1982); Risk (Ewert, Sibthorp, 2014); Cognitive Behavioral Change/Self Efficacy (Bandura, 1977); Pedagogy Learning (Rozenkranz,1989), and Experiential Learning Cycle (Kolb, 1984). The curriculum consists of four units, with two lessons in each unit. These lessons were intended to be used to deepen participants understanding of the natural world and enhance nature connectedness through the interpretation and adventure education subjects. While this curriculum was reviewed by a panel of experts and has one lesson that was pilot tested, it was outside the scope of this project to provide a summative evaluation of all of the lessons and units.Item Enslavement at Fort Snelling: Challenging Colonialism at One of Minnesota's Most Celebrated Historic Sites(2024) Minor, SophieFollowing nearly 20 years of archaeological excavation, Historic Fort Snelling, a tourist destination located near St. Paul Minnesota, was finally opened to the public in the Fall of 1970. Although the archaeological project was exhaustive and the reconstruction of the buildings was meticulous, the historical narrative presented at the site was inaccurate and incomplete. Hiding behind the façade of scholarly objectivity, the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) presented a Euro-American fantasy as fact and participated in the continued colonization of American Indians, African Americans, and other marginalized communities. The current study challenges the historic and contemporary interpretation at the site through the use of Black Feminist Thought and African Diaspora Archaeology. This dissertation details the ways in which the artifacts retrieved from earlier archaeological projects might be reinterpreted to challenge current and past interpretation at the site.Item An interpreting animal: hermeneutics and politics in the human sciences.(2010-09) Gimbel, Edward WilliamBeginning with a historical study of the human sciences' position between the natural sciences and the humanities, this dissertation examines the consequences of the fixation on questions of method that has characterized this positioning. Drawing on the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, I illustrate how it is that methodological concerns can serve to obscure other, more fundamental concerns. Gadamer uses Aristotle's ethics to make this point about method, and I take the further step of bringing this intersection of Aristotelian ethics and Gadamerian hermeneutics to bear productively on the human sciences. The result of this work is an approach to the human sciences characterized less by attention to methods and more by appreciation of ends. I argue that in the development of what I call "political teleology" the human sciences exploit their particular strengths, and find their political import.Item Sermons in Stones (editorial)(Minnesota Center for Advanced Studies in Language, Style, and Literary Theory, 1974) Hancher, MichaelDiscusses a poem by Robert Frost, "A Missive Missile," as dramatizing aspects of literary interpretation.