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An, Sohyun – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2022
In "Teaching about the Vietnam War: Centering Southeast Asian Refugee Voices through Children's Literature," Sohyun An provides content and pedagogic knowledge for teaching about the Vietnam War through Southeast Asian refugee children's books. The author provides a brief overview of the war from Southeast Asian perspectives and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian History, War, Refugees
Hà, Tú-Anh; Bellot, Andrea Roxana; Lê, Thùy Phuong Th? – Journal of Peace Education, 2022
The present case study explores the reception of American War literature among Vietnamese high-school students. In April and May 2020, seventy-seven seventeen-year-old students from "Lê H?ng Phong High School for the Gifted" (H? Chí Minh City) participated in this study by answering Google form surveys about literary texts that form part…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, World History, War
An, Sohyun – Social Studies, 2022
Using critical refugee studies as a theoretical lens, I analyzed Southeast Asian refugee children's literature to identify its pedagogical values and limitations for critical teaching about the Vietnam War. The findings suggest the children's literature can help challenge the dominant narratives of the Vietnam War as exclusively an American…
Descriptors: Asians, Refugees, Childrens Literature, Foreign Countries
Manoj Kumar Mishra; Priyankar Upadhyaya; Thomas Paul Davis – Journal of Peace Education, 2024
This paper narrates the concept of Sustainable Peace Leadership and examines how three prominent Peace Activists from South and Southeast Asia measure up to the concept. The article will consider the works and ideas of Mohandas K. Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Lhamo Thondup (The 14th Dalai Lama), and Nguyen Xuan Bao (Thich Nhat Hanh). Mahatma Gandhi…
Descriptors: Peace, Leaders, Leadership Qualities, Leadership Styles
Chau, Donovan C. – International Research and Review, 2014
Asia today is the center of tremendous growth. With the continued rise of China and the influential roles of Japan and South Korea in international affairs, it is no wonder that the 21st century has been dubbed the Asian century. Outside of these influential political actors, one also see the growing political significance of Southeast Asia in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Culture, Asian History, Asian Studies
Levy, Sara A. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2017
Using a multiple case study design, I examine how public high school students (n = 17) make sense of narratives about defining events with which they have specific heritage connections. Focusing on 3 groups of students (Hmong, Chinese, and Jewish) studying 3 heritage events (respectively, the Vietnam War, Modern China, and the Holocaust), this…
Descriptors: High School Students, Case Studies, Cultural Background, Asian History
Lachmann, Richard; Mitchell, Lacy – Sociology of Education, 2014
How have U.S. high school textbook depictions of World War II and Vietnam changed since the 1970s? We examined 102 textbooks published from 1970 to 2009 to see how they treated U.S. involvement in World War II and Vietnam. Our content analysis of high school history textbooks finds that U.S. textbooks increasingly focus on the personal experiences…
Descriptors: Textbooks, War, Asian History, United States History
Welch, Anthony – Frontiers of Education in China, 2012
China's dramatic economic rise has tended to overshadow other wider perspectives on the developing China and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) relationship, including in higher education. The article examines contemporary relations between China and ASEAN, set against the longer term development of cultural and trade relations. It is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, International Relations, Educational Cooperation
Agler, David W. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2010
This essay presents the use-first-and-investigate-later (UFAIL) approach to technological use through two case studies: the atomic bomb in World War II and chemical defoliants during the Vietnam War. The methodology of UFAIL is as follows: despite limited understanding of an array of potential effects (medical, environmental, etc.), technology…
Descriptors: Weapons, Investigations, War, Foreign Countries
Arkenberg, Rebecca – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2007
In this article, the author provides a brief history of Hmong and traces the origin of Hmong story cloths. The Hmong, a nomadic and agrarian people, may date back 5000 years. Today they live in China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos, where during the Vietnam War and its aftermath, many Hmong were killed or persecuted for siding with the American…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Hmong People, Asian History
Moyar, Mark – Academic Questions, 2008
Although the Vietnam War ended more than thirty years ago, historians remain as divided on what happened as the American people were during the war. Mark Moyar maps the ongoing battle between "orthodox" and "revisionist" Vietnam War historians: the first group, those who depict Vietnam as a bad war that the United States should…
Descriptors: Asian History, War, Foreign Countries, Historians
McMurray, Andrew J. – Education, 2007
During the Vietnam War, and the years following the conflict, history teachers were often hesitant to examine the war in the classroom for a variety of reasons. This article explores some of the factors that prohibited the effective teaching of the Vietnam War. Implications regarding how these inhibiting factors might affect teaching about the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Instructional Effectiveness, History Instruction, War
Murray, Thomas E. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2004
In this article, the author discusses his "History of the Vietnam War" course, which takes oral history as the core of its curriculum. This oral history focuses on personal lives and stories that can bring history to life. The components of the course are as follows: (1) overview of the History of the Vietnam War; (2) email interviews;…
Descriptors: Courses, Citizenship Education, Veterans, Interviews

Spade, Beatrice – History Teacher, 1975
Participants in an undergraduate oral history project interview Vietnam veterans in their locality as primary source material for a course in Southeast Asian history. (DE)
Descriptors: Asian History, Course Content, Higher Education, History Instruction
Warren, Wilson J.; Memory, David M.; Bolinger, Kevin – History Teacher, 2004
Improving critical thinking--defined by one expert as "reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do"--has been a frequent topic in the writing of history educators at least since the early 1970s. Attitudes and interests do support higher-level thinking and, most importantly, knowledge used in carrying it out…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Learning Activities, United States History