scienceplease
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 Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: NJ educators ponder how to teach 9/11 history |
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http://www.baristanet.com/2008/11/nj_educators_study_911_curricu.php
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New Jersey took the nation's lead last week as a group of teachers met to begin the process of designing a school curriculum addressing terrorism, and the impact of September 11. The sensitive topic led to many questions over how the information should be presented.
Often at the center of the maelstrom was Paul Winkler, the director of the state's Commission on Holocaust Education, which wrote the Holocaust curriculum and is spearheading this initiative. It touched on a central question throughout the weekend of how to approach different subjects with different ages.
Other topics drew equally fragile discussions, with teachers trying to straddle the lines on how to teach about al Qaeda terrorists and those from on our own soil, be they bombers in Oklahoma City or the Birmingham church. And how should early acts of Revolutionary War aggression like the Boston Tea Party be characterized?
A powerful force in the room was Mary Ellen Salamone, a North Caldwell mother of three whose husband died in the World Trade Center.
In the years since, Salamone has been outspoken about how the attacks are taught in schools, and the group Families of Sept. 11th is a third partner in the curriculum effort.
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| Quote: | | (Why?) I assure you that's the first question a kid would ask. And "because terrorists hate America" is not really a sufficient answer. |
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"If anyone read the article in the Ledger, there was some discussion about how to teach the 'why' from the persepective of the hijackers. I recycled and can't quote it but it angered me. The WHY?????? I'd like my children to be taught that they were psychotic religious extremests and not have them search for some deep, political cause!" |
Hmm, pretty slim pickings for a history subject unless you start adding in valued judgements and motives... which, of course, is forbidden at the moment... |
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