Youth and Adolescence

An American Love Story

admin — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:23:28 -0600

This study guide compliments the documentary, An American Love Story, a film that follows the everyday experiences of an interracial family who tries to figure out a way to overcome instances of racism.

Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - A Student Movement

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:59:08 -0600

Universities have long been places where ideas, theories, and even long-held truths are scrutinized and often hotly debated with each side mustering proof in support of its position. Such debates are central to the work of a university-the advancement of knowledge and the search for truth.

Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - Education in a Democracy

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:04:12 -0600

Conversation, discussion, and debate are central not only to universities but also to democracies. Such exchanges depend on a free and independent press that takes its responsibilities seriously. They also depend on informed citizens willing to listen to and learn from one another.

Charting Identity: Building Community in the Classroom

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:28:18 -0600

Choices in Little Rock

rachel — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:31:29 -0500

Choices in Little Rock is a teaching unit that focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 - efforts that resulted in a crisis that historian Taylor Branch once described as "the most severe test of the Constitution since the Civil War.

Emmett Till Lesson 3: Connecting the History of Lynching to The Murder

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:11:56 -0600

Emmett Till Lesson 4: Choosing to Remember

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:24:52 -0600

Engaging the Future: Call Me by My Real Name

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:48:37 -0600

According to the BBC World Service there are 300,000 child soldiers fighting in conflicts around the world. Many of those children were recruited to fight when they were as young as ten years old.

Engaging the Future: Learning From Hate

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:46:44 -0600

Before 1975, Beirut, the capital of Lebanon was a thriving cosmopolitan city known to many as the "Riviera of the Middle East." The government, created after gaining independence from France in 1943, managed a delicate balance between its diverse population of Christians, Muslims, and a dwindling number of Jews.

Engaging the Future: Listening to the Other

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:50:56 -0600

What do young people learn about each other when they grow up amidst violence and conflict? What does it take to move beyond the myth, mistrust, and misinformation that can become part of the cycle of conflict? In a climate of fear is it possible to see the world beyond the stark contrasts of "us against them" and "those that are with us versus those that against us?" And, if you are able to bring young people together for dialogue, how can their experiences be harnessed to create momentum for peace.