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Chapter 1-9
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Please wait until you have completed the assigned reading before you choose who to write about and make sure that what you post reflects what you read accurately. This discussion is intended to provide an opportunity to share ideas from the book, not just the first couple of chapters.
Choose one of the two options below. You are welcome to comment on both topics if you are especially interested in the history of education in America.
Write an informal one-page essay, a little more structured than what you would usually post to a discussion. Use a subject line that identifies your topic. Before starting, please check the discussion board to make sure that you don’t duplicate another student’s essay topic. Once you have posted your essay, reply to at least ONE other student who posts something related to your posting, or posts about something that interests you.
Topic 1: Does anyone know where to rent a time machine?
If you could go back in history and spend a day with an educator or in a classroom setting in an American school more than 50 years ago (as described in “Teacher Wars”), who/where would you choose and why? What would you expect to see that you would be touched by? What would you expect to see that you might find disturbing? What would you want to ask the educator or the teacher in the classroom se Ptting and his or her students? Provide a citation from the book identifying the educator or setting.
Topic 2: In Their Own Words
The Content Guides and online resources in this module include a number of links to primary source material about education – material written by historical figures like John Dewey and W.E. B. Dubois and by students and teachers who survived ‘American Indian Schools’. You can find some extensive quotations in “Teacher Wars” and the “Schools” video
Identify one or two quotations or speeches from the book, video or module that you thought were especially interesting and explain why. What do you know about the historical context of the material—in other words, what was going on in schools and society at the time the quotation was written? Do you think that it has any relevance to education today?
