1st Edition

9/11 and Collective Memory in US Classrooms Teaching About Terror

By Cheryl Lynn Duckworth Copyright 2015
146 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

While current literature stresses the importance of teaching about the 9/11 attacks on the US, many questions remain as to what teachers are actually teaching in their own classrooms. Few studies address how teachers are using of all of this advice and curriculum, what sorts of activities they are undertaking, and how they go about deciding what they will do. Arguing that the events of 9/11 have... Read more

1. Classrooms, and a Country, Cope 2. Peace Education, Chosen Trauma and Collective Memory in the Classroom 3. Inside the Classroom 4. Educator Narratives of Teaching Terror 5. School Culture and the Power of Neoliberalism 6. Teaching 9/11 as an Opportunity for Narrative Transformation

Biography

Cheryl Lynn Duckworth, Ph.D., is a professor of conflict resolution at Nova Southeastern University, USA, whose teaching and research focus on transforming the social, cultural, political and economic causes of war and violence. She regularly lectures and presents workshops on peace education, conflict resolution and historical memory. Among her recent publications is Conflict Resolution and the Scholarship of Engagement.