By: Colleen Batchelder on September 10, 2015
Imagine the chaotic turmoil of war – lives vastly changed through one act of terror. Picture yourself on the city steps – bodies fall before your eyes. You can hear the bombs encircling overhead. You can feel the chill of the wintry breeze hitting your face. Your experience is written within the core of your…
By: Marc Andresen on September 10, 2015
Have I been functioning as a visual ethnographer without knowing it? Every year my wife takes her 7th grade class on a field trip to Washington D. C. For several years I have gone along in order to take pictures and post a daily blog. The purpose of the blog is to give a picture of…
By: Claire Appiah on September 10, 2015
Visual Approaches to Knowledge and Experience Sarah Pink: Doing Visual Ethnography Sarah Pink is an accomplished ethnographer whose extensive work has effectively challenged and contributed to the field, notably through her research concepts and methodologies that emphasized fusing theoretical and practical elements in doing ethnography to enhance learning about the world. Pink observes that visual…
By: Rose Anding on September 10, 2015
Visual of the Real World “Ethnography is defined as the scientific study of human…
By: Jason Kennedy on September 10, 2015
We Are All Visual Ethnographers Now Laying in my bed as try to chase sleep, I often times find myself picking up my favorite digital device and taking a stroll through the halls of social media. As a pastor, this can be a dangerous walk. When I go to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any of…
By: Aaron Cole on September 5, 2015
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren was very foundational and somewhat elementary on the subject of reading and good reading skill. The content could be divided into two categories: basic understanding of reading (part one) and the practices of how to be a good reader (part 2). The…
By: Claire Appiah on September 4, 2015
Adler: How to Read a Book Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren are to be credited for showing the activity of quality reading to be an art, a science, and a skill. They have produced an outstanding and thorough work on techniques, levels, and types of reading that has become a classic model for informing…
By: Garfield Harvey on September 3, 2015
How To Read A Book’s target audience are those who ‘read’ to gain increased understanding. We are living in a society that relies on acquired information through spoken words and observations. In this technological era, reading the text from a book is no longer a priority. My oldest son is in high school with a…
By: Rose Anding on September 3, 2015
Word by Word We read books! How do we read books? Are we using the correct method? These are some of the questions that most people ask when reading books; which include Professors in various institutions, asking these questions too. Apparently, few have recognized how they should read books. They…
By: Kevin Norwood on September 3, 2015
Every book has margins in it! In, “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, there is a clear reason given for the margins in a book. It is to write in. There is so much more to reading a book than just covering the words on the pages. There…
By: Colleen Batchelder on September 3, 2015
One must demand the right for truth. The reader must demand the right to transform. If we simply read to be entertained or appeased, then our obtainment becomes nothing more than ignorance and indoctrination. Adler makes a stunning declaration regarding this apathetic crisis in our culture. “Many readers, and most particularly those who view current…
By: Aaron Peterson on September 3, 2015
How To Read A Book by Adler and Doren is a fantastic book on the many rules and steps to reading intelligently. Due to the amount of minutiae though, I constantly found myself feeling the same way one does when watching a Ken Burns documentary on the United States Congress. The majority of people would…
By: Jason Kennedy on September 3, 2015
I will be the first to admit that when I saw that I was assigned a book entitled, How to Read a Book, I was a little frustrated. After all, I am a highly skilled and highly educated man who has read plenty of books. Certainly, this would be a waste of time and energy to read…
By: Pablo Morales on September 3, 2015
“How to Read a Book” was first published in 1940. After three decades of unexpected success and two years before I was born, Mortimer Adler published a new edition with the help of Charles Van Doren in order to approach the art of reading in a more holistic way. This approach resulted in a series…
By: Phil Goldsberry on September 2, 2015
I thought it was interesting that the first book of the required reading was a book dealing with “speed” and comprehension. Understandably the book was “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, but I thought that was a given. Yet as I delved into the pages, at not quite snails pace,…
By: Marc Andresen on September 2, 2015
The book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, definitely qualifies as a “how to” book, and it has many practical helps. After reading it, I have a new appreciation for how challenging it must be to write such a volume without making it feel like a Saharan adventure. Although…
