Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2025

Abstract

For this in-class activity, students work in small groups to conduct collaborative deep thinking on the history of Puerto Rico. To do this, they will first watch the Suncoast Emmy award-winning documentary, The Last Colony to learn about the history of Puerto Rico and its complex political relationship with the United States. Then, guided by the professor, they will use a modified version of the ethnocharette experimental pedagogy, developed by the University of California at Irvine’s Center for Ethnography, to understand, organize, and think more deeply about the themes of the documentary. Finally, they use this information to imagine possible new futures for Puerto Rico. In this activity, students watch a documentary and engage in an ethnocharette that facilitates synthetic, comparative, speculative, and imaginative thinking.

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