2025 Workshop Talk | | History, Literature
Summary
There is no shortage of ways and strategies to help us teach the Great Books. From practicable tools to historical pedagogies, various techniques abound. But not all approaches to the Great Books (especially the “worldview” ones) are rooted in the medieval tradition. This may not matter to those who wish to preserve modernism in their instruction. But for those who want to teach the Great Books like a medieval—that is to say, like a Christian—this workshop will offer practices and principles to make your students unfit for the modern world.
Speaker
Devin O’Donnell has served in classical Christian education for over 20 years as a teacher, leader, and writer. He is the author of The Age of Martha: A Call to Contemplative Learning in a Frenzied Culture (2019). He is also a contributor to Salvo Magazine and has published in Touchstone, Forma and the CiRCE Blog, CLT Journal, and others. He was the research editor at Writ Press in 2015 and worked to produce the award-winning Bibliotheca, which is now an exhibit at the Museum of the Bible. Though he earned his MA in the humanities in 2010, he still remains a classical hack who came up through the manhole covers of learned society. He has four adventurous children, and he lives with his wife in the Northwest, where he writes, fly fishes, and longs for the sea.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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