The journal also provides me several opportunities during a semester to assess, to listen, and to encourage. Recently, I have begun to use online resources in my teaching. To make the format and content of journal entries more clear from the beginning, I have recently added online examples of appropriate journal entries. I am now using one ECU student s perspective of Africa to communicate African themes to other ECU students in several courses. This interdisciplinary subject reveals history s personal relevance very effectively.
Evidence strongly suggests African origins for humanity.
Taking the long homocentric view of our species, one can argue that we are all Africans. They begin to appreciate the irony that the nineteenth-century science on which Westerners have based much of their arrogance and racism has recently revealed that the long maligned Africans are their cousins, offspring from the same ancient African mothers and fathers as the students themselves. Thus, in profound ways history can be personally relevant. Virtually all ATP freshmen were seniors in North Carolina s high schools. Like many of these high risk freshmen, I was taught football and history from the same person in a rural southern school with few resources.