People Need to Know: Confronting History in the Heartland (Counterpoints) - Softcover

Lucas, Robert M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433129787 ISBN 13: 9781433129780

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community’s history – a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century’s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create a collection of online resources about the lynching. As they encounter troubling information and consider how best to present it to others, the students come to better understand the complex ethical ramifications of historical work and to more fully appreciate why their learning matters. Through the stories of these students, their teacher, and an author re-immersed in the town of his own childhood, the book develops an approach to curriculum in which students create products of value beyond the school walls. In a time of educational standardization, when assignments and assessments often fail to deliberately engage the ethically charged and locally particular contexts of students’ lives, Robert M. Lucas proposes that we see learning in their creation and appreciation of public value. The book will be of particular interest for courses in curriculum studies and in history and social studies education.

About this title

About the Author

Robert M. Lucas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary and Middle Grades Education at East Carolina University. He holds a PhD in education from Stanford University as well as a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433129787
• ISBN 13: 9781433129780
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 179