People need to know : confronting history in the heartland / Robert M. Lucas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucas, Robert M., 1981- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 484.

Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education, 1058-1634 ; vol. 484

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local history--Study and teaching--Indiana--Marion.

Local history.

Outreach programs in history--Indiana--Marion.

Outreach programs in history.

Lynching--Indiana--Marion--History--20th century.

Lynching.

History.

Local history--Study and teaching.

Marion (Ind.)--History--20th century.

Marion (Ind.).

Indiana--Marion.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 179 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Bern : Peter Lang, [2016]

Summary:

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 wails. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 "Life Is an Experiment" 19

Chapter 2 Learning-as-a-Service 39

Chapter 3 History in the Act 55

Chapter 4 "People Need to Know" 77

Chapter 5 Realizing the Public Values of Learning 111.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174)and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781433129797

1433129795

9781433129780

1433129787

OCLC:

931035625

Publisher Number:

99966511925