The debates are informed by Plato's Republic, as well as excerpts from Thucydides, Xenophon, and other contemporary sources. By examining democracy at its threshold, the game provides the perspective to consider its subsequent evolution.
Reacting to the Past is a series of historical role-playing games that explore important ideas by re-creating the contexts that shaped them. Students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.
An award-winning active-learning pedagogy, Reacting to the Past improves speaking, writing, and leadership skills, promotes engagement with classic texts and history, and builds learning communities. Reacting can be used across the curriculum, from the first-year general education class to "capstone" experiences. A Reacting game can also function as the discussion component of lecture classes, or it can be enlisted for intersession courses, honors programs, and other specialized curricular purposes.
- ISBN10 0393937321
- ISBN13 9780393937329
- Publish Date 1 April 2014 (first published 6 September 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 118
- Language English