Immigrants, Ethnicity, and Native Americans: Early 20th Century Education

Required Reading:

• Watch Video on John Dewey
• John Dewey “My Pedagogic Creed”
• B.I.Bell Bell.pdf
• Mintz, Ch. 10
• Lewis Merriam “The Problem of Indian Administration (Links to an external site.)“: Chapter 1(1928)

Youth Culture in the first half of the 20th Century

Required Reading:

• Mintz, Ch. 11
• https://dl.epdf.pub/download/hucks-raft-a-history-of-american-childhood.html?hash=2604b76316425be274faca582908042e&captcha=2379ca2760b0f31363e2ebebe207c493
  
  Identify three to five (3-5) Take-Aways from the assigned readings/videos (not the TED talks or assignments.The Take-Aways should
  • Specifically identify a direct quote/issue in the reading
  • Discuss what you found interesting, conflicting, new, important, noteworthy as you read
  • Connect to other course content or other items you have learned in other courses.
  • Be succinct and specific to this course and what you’re learning
  • Identify the author, the page number and the direct quote (if you are quoting).

  For example (and you may use this format until you get comfortable with your own voice):As I read hook’s text the following quote seemed particularly relevant to me, “We must courageously challenge the privileged who aggressively see to deny the disadvantaged a chance to change their lot” (p. 99). How is it that we are still having this conversation around who gets what and why in 2018? This was written in 2000, and in my own naïveté, I have always assumed that people generally want to help others. I think this connects directly to Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” and it seems that the same people are talking about the same issues and ideas

• Second Assignment
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  Revisionist History: Listen to the Podcast by Malcom Gladwell, titled, “Miss Buchanan’s Period Of Adjustment”. Listen to it very carefully. When you are finished, think about the messages the Gladwell wants you to take away from the story(ies). How does this connect to the ideas that you have noted in your Take-Aways? Write a thoughtful response (200-300 words) to the following (and any other) questions:
• • Why is it important for us to look at historical events with different lenses (than we have to date)?
  • What does it mean to our constructed narratives when we do?
  • How does your vision of “things I know to be true in the past” change when you’re given new insights and stories? What changes? How does it change?
  • How will you use these ideas moving forward in the course?
  • How does this idea of “knowing” history show up in the readings for the course so far (cite a specific example)