The classic "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969/1991) and other writings of American novelist, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., resonate with young people and are sometimes part of the required curriculum in secondary schools, which necessitates an exploration of the ideas and ideals to which youngsters are exposed. This article explores the Atomic Age…

Used wisely, academic technology empowers students to take responsibility for their own learning. "In Leonardo's Laptop," Ben Shneiderman provides teachers with a powerful framework, "Collect-Relate-Create-Donate" (CRCD), for designing student-centered learning opportunities using computers. Shneiderman developed his model by…

"Civil defence pedagogies" normalise continuous emergency through educational channels such as school, community and adult education. Using critical whiteness studies, and critiques of white supremacy from critical race theory, as a conceptual base, the protection of whiteness, and particularly the white middle-class family, is considered to be…

Analyzes the findings of a study conducted to: (1) identify the type of history courses offered by community colleges; (2) compare the relative strength of history enrollments in relation to total humanities and total college enrollments; and (3) identify, on the basis of enrollments, the most popular history courses. (JP)

Recommends 98 books, coded for reading level, which emphasize human relations and present original theme or fresh slant on traditional topic. Topical categories are: American history, culture and life (23 titles); world history and culture (13 titles); biographies (6 titles); folktales, storytelling, and poetry (22 titles); contemporary interests…

Provides background information about the eugenics movement. Focuses on eugenics in the United States detailing the case, Buck v. Bell, and eugenics in Germany. Explores the present eugenic movement, focusing on "The Bell Curve," China's one child policy, and the use of eugenic sterilizations in the United States and Canada. Includes…

Over 150 resources on women's history are arranged under the following headings: author/title, collective biographies, reference materials, and individual biographies. Within the biography categories, publications are arranged alphabetically by author (collective biographies) or subject (individual biographies). Within the remaining categories,…

In history classes, each student should (1) be encouraged to learn about his or her own past, and (2) be actively involved in the process of learning. For example, students can be asked to find out every thing they can that was going on the day they were born. (RM)

Explores what comprises the history taught in school over the past century, focusing on two trends: (1) a broader scope of history to include a history of the world; and (2) within U.S. history, a movement from purposeful exclusion of cultures and people to marginal inclusion. Advocates an inclusive and coherent history. (CMK)

Focuses on the experience of U.S. soldiers during World War I. Addresses topics, such as the difficulties and horrors the soldiers dealt with in the trenches, the problems with untrained soldiers, the sickness and injuries that affected soldiers, and heroes of the war. (CMK)

States that because historical novelists who wish to create lifelike characters and situations must base their work on accurate and thorough research, historical fiction can and should be used as another way of interpreting the past. Urges the critical analysis of historical fiction to make authors accountable for their work. (LS)

Designed to provide resources for initiating new courses at colleges and universities, this bibliography contains nonpublished materials developed by projects to integrate the new scholarship on women into the postsecondary curriculum. The alphabetical listing of 29 projects, many associated with postsecondary institutions, includes project…

World War II has been seen as a marker, not a period, in the history of education. This misconception persists in two recently published histories of U.S. school curriculum. Wartime curriculum history is a story of both change and prewar continuity in curriculum emphases, organizations, assumptions, and legitimations. Both change and continuity…

This annotated bibliography is intended to help social studies teachers give students in grades 5-12 a better understanding of Jews from the Biblical times to the present. Its purposes are to supply information about the role of Jews in both world and American history and to help teachers and students develop an informed perspective on intergroup…

Maintains that hundreds of books are being published to commemorate the end of World War II. Asserts that the books will change certain thinking about the world of the 1930s and 1940s and the ways to teach about the war. Provides a bibliographic essay of some of the new books, particularly those that incorporate oral history. (CFR)