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One of my teaching goals this past year was to infuse more discussion of non-violent actions to bring about change into my curriculum. It seemed to me that this was a natural place in which global examples would be especially valuable to students and would be a good way to test out my thinking about global education.
The curriculum unit I developed--Global Approaches to Peaceful Change through Non-Violent Strategies--enabled me and my students to work internationally to study the conditions under which non-violent efforts at change and reform were successful (and when they were not). I was able to integrate technology to support student learning and to emphasize student-centered investigation of primary written and image sources.
Creating and executing this unit, although I had to modify it somewhat to fit toward the end of the school year, firmly convinced me of the value of looking across cultures to common impulses and strategies. While I believe strongly in the "drill deep" approach to studying history, I think looking deeply at several cultures to see how individual histories and backgrounds often arrive at similar solutions to problems has enormous value and still preserves the drilling deep that I value. The feedback I received from my students about this unit was overwhelming positive and I plan to continue to implement and further refine this unit as I move forward.
The overall curriculum unit is below. Linked to this page is a detailed lesson from the unit. The lesson is devoted to the response to events in South Africa that occurred in the town of Sharpeville.
I welcome feedback on this unit and lessons. Please feel free to use the e-mail address on the contact page to send me your feedback.
One of my teaching goals this past year was to infuse more discussion of non-violent actions to bring about change into my curriculum. It seemed to me that this was a natural place in which global examples would be especially valuable to students and would be a good way to test out my thinking about global education.
The curriculum unit I developed--Global Approaches to Peaceful Change through Non-Violent Strategies--enabled me and my students to work internationally to study the conditions under which non-violent efforts at change and reform were successful (and when they were not). I was able to integrate technology to support student learning and to emphasize student-centered investigation of primary written and image sources.
Creating and executing this unit, although I had to modify it somewhat to fit toward the end of the school year, firmly convinced me of the value of looking across cultures to common impulses and strategies. While I believe strongly in the "drill deep" approach to studying history, I think looking deeply at several cultures to see how individual histories and backgrounds often arrive at similar solutions to problems has enormous value and still preserves the drilling deep that I value. The feedback I received from my students about this unit was overwhelming positive and I plan to continue to implement and further refine this unit as I move forward.
The overall curriculum unit is below. Linked to this page is a detailed lesson from the unit. The lesson is devoted to the response to events in South Africa that occurred in the town of Sharpeville.
I welcome feedback on this unit and lessons. Please feel free to use the e-mail address on the contact page to send me your feedback.