Talking Back to Columbus: Teaching for Justice and Hope.

Bigelow, Bill

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ERIC Number: EJ454300

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1992

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Talking Back to Columbus: Teaching for Justice and Hope.

Bigelow, Bill

Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, v10 n1 p4-8 Sep-Oct 1992

Argues that no curricular task is more important than encouraging students to deconstruct the powerful social myth of Columbus. Describes ways to invite students to "talk back" to Columbus and all he symbolizes and to encourage students' appreciation of their own capacities to make a difference. (SR)

Descriptors: Activism, Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Resistance (Psychology), Secondary Education, Social Studies, Student Writing Models, United States History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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