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Location
Weatherford, Oklahoma
Document Type
Panel Discussion
Event Website
https://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-54.htm
Start Date
25-7-2026 11:00 AM
End Date
25-7-2026 11:50 AM
Description
The panel will focus on an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach anchored to research applications of AAC&U High Impact Practices in integrative learning, learning communities, place-based writing, project-based learning, and gamification studies (Chou). Framed through a synthesis of ethno-geology and mythology, I developed a collaborative assignment that asked my intro to mythology students to develop their own mythologies based on Arizona specific cultures or geological features and oddities. After conducting their own background research, undergraduate students developed locally-based mythologies that answered at least one of the four big questions of existence. Then, they anchored those mythologies within one of the more readily transferable vessels for powerful stories in the 21st century, Dungeons & Dragons. Joining Dr. Fields are Teagan Brady, Dakota Dalota, Claira Hickman, Gina Manygoats, Donovan McBride, and Ryan Pillmore. The panel will lay out the framing and approaches given to students as well as allow a few of my students to present their research and final exploratory projects in ethnogeographical mythologies.
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Weatherford, Oklahoma
The panel will focus on an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach anchored to research applications of AAC&U High Impact Practices in integrative learning, learning communities, place-based writing, project-based learning, and gamification studies (Chou). Framed through a synthesis of ethno-geology and mythology, I developed a collaborative assignment that asked my intro to mythology students to develop their own mythologies based on Arizona specific cultures or geological features and oddities. After conducting their own background research, undergraduate students developed locally-based mythologies that answered at least one of the four big questions of existence. Then, they anchored those mythologies within one of the more readily transferable vessels for powerful stories in the 21st century, Dungeons & Dragons. Joining Dr. Fields are Teagan Brady, Dakota Dalota, Claira Hickman, Gina Manygoats, Donovan McBride, and Ryan Pillmore. The panel will lay out the framing and approaches given to students as well as allow a few of my students to present their research and final exploratory projects in ethnogeographical mythologies.
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythcon/mc54/schedule/12
