Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Episcopal social studies teachers Robyn Andermann and Pete Longeway earned grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend seminars this summer.

Ms. Andermann will attend “History and Memory: World War I in British Culture,” a four-week seminar for 15 K-12 teachers. Seminar participants will be in London for two weeks, visiting collections in the Imperial War Museum, National Army Museum and the British Library. They will then tour battlefields and memorials on the Western Front in France and Belgium for a week before returning to London for the final week. Participants will read primary and secondary sources - poetry, memoir and fiction - throughout the seminar, and complete a final project.

Mr. Longeway will attend “The Principle of the Separation of Church and State,” a four-week seminar for 15 teachers at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Participants will study the origins of the concept of the separation of church and state, the philosophical basis for the principle, current events and the extrapolation of the principle to emerging democracies and world religions.