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A People's History for the Classroom
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Bigelow, Bill – Rethinking Schools, Ltd, 2008
"A People's History for the Classroom" helps teachers introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of U.S. history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. It includes a new introductory essay by veteran teacher Bill Bigelow on teaching strategies that align with Howard Zinn's "A People's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, United States History, Teaching Methods, History Instruction
North American Insecurities, Fears and Anxieties: Educational Implications
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Larsen, Marianne A. – Comparative Education, 2008
Contemporary North American insecurities and fears are the focus of this article. In the first section, the inter-related concepts of insecurity, fear and vulnerability are theorised, and the argument put forward that these have come to constitute a dominant discourse in contemporary North American society. In the second section of the paper, the…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Educational Change, Foreign Countries, North Americans
Between Japanese American Internment and the USA PATRIOT Act: The Borderlands and the Permanent State of Racial Exception
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Michaelsen, Scott – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2005
The general conversation today about the USA PATRIOT Act and its historical and legal significance must be contextualized with reference to a series of 1970s U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the U.S. Border Patrol that directly undergird the PATRIOT Act. The Supreme Court long ago turned the U.S. borderlands adjoining Mexico into a permanent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Employees, Japanese Americans, Court Litigation