EDFE 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: Political Correctness, Compulsory Education, Hidden Curriculum
25 Apr 2017
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1: chapter 3. 1, the emergence of democratic citizenship education . 2: some people even died": martin luther king, jr. , the civil rights movement and the politics of remembrance in elementary classrooms", john wills (moodle) Are efforts to include more women and people of color in the us history curriculum simply. Struggles over what pasts we should remember and the correct" way to remember them have become more evident during the culture wars or history wars of recent years. The king holiday, like black history month, can be criticized as a token attempt to include. African-americans in the nation"s past, a mere add-on" that does little to revise or challenge exclusionary narratives of us history. The signi cance of commemoration in constituting and maintaining collective memories of the past suggests the importance of schools and classrooms as public66 spaces for producing collective representations and interpretations of history.
