Innovative Learning and Teaching: Experiments Across the Disciplines

The authors collected in Innovations in Learning and Teaching are faculty and instructors from various University of Minnesota campuses, each part of a team that successfully completed university-funded grant projects with teaching and technology consultants. Here, several faculty extend the conversation through scholarship of learning and teaching articles. Readers, including future faculty, as well as current instructors, faculty, administrators, regents and legislators, will benefit from the authors’ attention to learners, complex learning, practicable pedagogy, and curricular experimentation.University of Minnesota Center for Educational Innovatio

'A Divided Soul'? the Cold War odyssey of O. John Rogge

In 1948 O. John Rogge, a prominent American liberal, was a contender for the Progressive Party's vice-presidential nomination. He was then a man of the Left: an activist in the international peace movement, a champion of radical causes and a defender of organizations deemed subversive by the Department of Justice. In 1951 he persuaded his\ud client to turn government witness in the Rosenberg espionage trial and was converted into 'Rogge the Rat' by his former allies. In tracing this transformation, this paper will argue that Rogge was neither a typical Cold War apostate nor a typical anti-Stalinist intellectual. Instead, his political trajectory was the outcome of a failed attempt to steer global politics away from Cold War dichotomies. The paper will therefore throw new light\ud both on the movement to find a 'third way' between East and West, and on the phenomenon of non-communist Left activism during the early Cold War