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Bridging World History

Bridging World History

1 - Survival (Part 3) Critical theory and performance Beyond the Bubble...Standford History site. World History for Us All 1 - Survival (Part 1) Teaching Blog at Baruch College Many of us who teach have had this experience: We work hard to explain to our students something that we understand well. We try to use intuition, analogies, examples, multiple methods, asking and answering questions, group exercises—the stuff of pedagogical knowledge. We are rewarded with students who feel that they understand. But when our students try to solve problems themselves, many make mistakes which reveal that they, in fact, didn’t understand. We correct their mistakes, explaining the right logic. Through years of work and after much frustration, we teachers learn students’ common errors and the logic of those errors. This knowledge of the thinking behind their errors is not the content of our subject. Then a few weeks ago I read a New York Times magazine article, “Building a Better Teacher.” “It’s one thing to know that 307 minus 168 equals 139; it is another thing to be able to understand why a third grader might think that 261 is the right answer.

Veterans and White Supremacy by Kathleen Belew Kathleen Belew, a postdoctoral fellow in history at Northwestern University, is at work on a book on Vietnam veterans and the radical right. WHEN Frazier Glenn Miller shot and killed three peoplein Overland Park, Kan., on Sunday, he did so as a soldier of the white power movement: a groundswell that united Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other fringe elements after the Vietnam War, crested with the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, and remains a diminished but potent threat today. Mr. Miller, the 73-year-old man charged in the killings, had been outspokenabout his hatred of Jews, blacks, Communists and immigrants, but it would be a mistake to dismiss him as a crazed outlier. You can’t predict whether any one person will commit violence, but it would be hard to think of someone more befitting of law enforcement scrutiny than Mr. Before his 1979 discharge for distributing racist literature, Mr. Continue reading the main stor

The Flow of History

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