YMB #26 Integrating Subjects: A Conversation with Carol Reynolds
Homeschool Better Together
Emily Brown
4.8 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
It is a question English Moms and Math Moms both dread, "What about the arts?" How am I going to help my child appreciate and love beautiful art, music, and dance? Why should I even bother? Why is this so important when the crowd is clamoring STEM?
Prof. Carol Reynolds is here to answer your questions and more. She is passionate about art, music and how it defines a culture. We are reminded that our children are very expressive beings who naturally find joy in creativity and admire beautiful things. She encourages us with practical advice on how to help our children keep their natural tendency for creative arts, how to integrate the arts into our
She encourages us with practical advice on how to help our children keep their natural tendency for creative arts, how to integrate the arts into our everyday lives, into every subject we teach, and how to do this all without a strong arts background ourselves.
With a gentle reminder that the goal is not to produce an artistic prodigy, but someone who appreciates and can discern the beauty in the arts. She also assures us that this can be done without spending gobs of money on lessons or resources but simply by asking the question, "Why is this beautiful, or ugly." With humor and warmth, Prof. Carol makes the arts sound not only doable for the average homeschool mom but absolutely essential.
For show notes and episode downloads, visit https://pambarnhill.com/ymb26/.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day. |
| 0:17.8 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 26 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I'm Pam Barnhill, |
| 0:24.7 | your host, and I'm so happy you're joining me here today. Well, I thought I was going to be talking to |
| 0:30.5 | Dr. Carol Reynolds about integrating subjects. And we did. And then we talked about 50 million other things as well, because that's the way |
| 0:40.0 | a conversation goes with a person who is passionate about what they do. And that certainly is |
| 0:46.5 | Professor Carroll. She is extremely passionate. We cover a lot of great topics in this interview. |
| 0:53.1 | And it was a lot of fun to record. |
| 0:55.0 | And I think it's going to be a lot of fun for you guys to listen to as well. |
| 0:59.3 | So sit back, hold on to your seat, and get ready to discover a little passion about the humanities. Humanities. |
| 1:20.5 | Professor Carol Reynolds is a champion for art education with a specialty in the study of Imperial Russia. |
| 1:21.9 | She has a passion for music, history, art, and culture, and spent more than 20 years |
| 1:27.3 | teaching music history at Southern |
| 1:29.2 | Methodist University in Dallas. She shares her love for the humanities by leading art tours to a |
| 1:35.0 | wide variety of international locations. Her website, Professor Carroll.com, is loaded with resources |
| 1:41.6 | for families looking to dive into a deeper and more integrated study of the arts, |
| 1:46.9 | including courses for middle and high school students, podcasts, webinars, and so much more. |
| 1:52.6 | She joins us today to discuss her integrated approach to these beautiful subjects and what that |
| 1:57.5 | approach might look like in a morning time. Professor Carol, thanks for joining us today. |
| 2:02.4 | It's my pleasure to be here. |
| 2:04.1 | Well, let's start off by talking a little bit about the arts. |
| 2:07.3 | Why do the arts play such a central role in human experience? |
| 2:11.6 | Well, we are defined by many things in our role here on this earth, but one of them is our |
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