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Muetterties, Carly; Haney, Jess – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2018
Kentucky's elementary social studies curriculum includes introductory knowledge in state and national history, providing an opportunity for teachers to include instruction on the influence of slavery on society before and after the Civil War, and sometimes on current events. For example, following the violent events in 2017 in Charlottesville,…
Descriptors: Slavery, Social Studies, Violence, Elementary School Students
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Bowring, Bill – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2012
This article attempts a contrast to the contribution by Hugh Starkey. Rather than his account of the inexorable rise of human rights discourse, and of the implementation of human rights standards, human rights are here presented as always and necessarily scandalous and highly contested. First, I explain why the UK has lagged so far behind its…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries
Coatney, Sharon; Smalley, Rachel – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2006
The third article in this series featuring the Living History Program (see December 2005 and January 2006) looks at the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American woman poet. Though little is known of her life as a slave in Boston, her published poetry is available today for people to read and enjoy. This study of Phillis…
Descriptors: United States History, Poets, Slavery, Comparative Analysis