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Teaching history for the common good
This book reviews research on elementary & middle schools students' historical thinking.Grounded in the theoretical context of mediated action,it addresses the breadth of social practices, settings, purposes & tools that influence students.
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Teaching Black History to White People
Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five
years, mostly to white people. Drawing on decades of experience in
the classroom and on college campuses throughout the South, as well
as on his own personal history, Moore illustrates how an
understanding of Black history is necessary for everyone.
With Teaching Black History to White People , which is
\"part memoir, part Black history, part pedagogy, and part how-to
guide,\" Moore delivers an accessible and engaging primer on the
Black experience in America. He poses provocative questions, such
as \"Why is the teaching of Black history so controversial?\" and
\"What came first: slavery or racism?\" These questions don't have
easy answers, and Moore insists that embracing discomfort is
necessary for engaging in open and honest conversations about race.
Moore includes a syllabus and other tools for actionable steps that
white people can take to move beyond performative justice and
toward racial reparations, healing, and reconciliation.
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Science as Service
Science as Service :
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant
Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume
study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s
land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of
essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the
successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first
sixty-five years of their existence. In myriad scenes, vignettes,
and episodes from the history of land-grant colleges, these
essays demonstrate the defining characteristic of these
institutions: their willingness to proclaim and pursue science in
the service of the publics and students they serve. The Morrill
Land-Grant College Act of 1862 created a series of
institutions—at least one in every state and
territory—with now familiar names: Michigan State
University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, Rutgers
University, the University of Arizona, and the University of
California, to name a few. These schools opened educational
opportunities and pathways to a significant segment of the
American public and gave the United States a global edge in
science, technical innovation, and agriculture.
Science as Service provides an essential body of
literature for understanding the transformations of the
land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act in 1862 as
well as the considerable impact they had on the history of the
United States. Historians of science, technology, and
agriculture, along with rural sociologists, public decision and
policy makers, educators, and higher education administrators
will find this an essential addition to their book
collections.
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Founding the Fathers
Through their teaching of early Christian history and theology, Elizabeth A. Clark contends, Princeton Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Divinity School, and Union Theological Seminary functioned as America's closest equivalents to graduate schools in the humanities during the nineteenth century. These four Protestant institutions, founded to train clergy, later became the cradles for the nonsectarian study of religion at secular colleges and universities. Clark, one of the world's most eminent scholars of early Christianity, explores this development in Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America.Based on voluminous archival materials, the book charts how American theologians traveled to Europe to study in Germany and confronted intellectual currents that were invigorating but potentially threatening to their faith. The Union and Yale professors in particular struggled to tame German biblical and philosophical criticism to fit American evangelical convictions. German models that encouraged a positive view of early and medieval Christianity collided with Protestant assumptions that the church had declined grievously between the Apostolic and Reformation eras. Trying to reconcile these views, the Americans came to offer some counterbalance to traditional Protestant hostility both to contemporary Roman Catholicism and to those historical periods that had been perceived as Catholic, especially the patristic era.
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