Glorious Burdens: Teaching Obama's History and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Autor/in	Slate, Nico
Titel	Glorious Burdens: Teaching Obama's History and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Quelle	In: History Teacher, 44 (2011) 4, S.591-599 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2745
Schlagwörter	College Freshmen; Civil Rights; Mothers; Presidents; Parent Child Relationship; Multiracial Persons; Biographies; United States History; Race; Seminars; Teaching Methods; Self Concept; History Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienanfänger; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Mother; Mutter; President; Präsident; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mischling; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Rasse; Abstammung; Seminar; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Selbstkonzept; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht
Abstract	As a young child, Barack Obama learned about the civil rights movement from his mother. Obama's mother strove to instill in her multiracial son pride in being more than just literally African American. There is much to learn from Obama's history, understood both as the story of his life and as what Obama himself has said about his past and the larger history of race in the United States. For the past two years, the author has had the opportunity to explore the pedagogical possibilities of Obama's history with fifteen college freshmen in a seminar entitled "Barack Obama and the History of Race in America." He has found that teaching Obama's history can help students understand how the traditional narrative of the civil rights movement can be expanded both geographically and temporally. In this article, the author discusses the importance of viewing the past through the lens of Obama's history and how it empowers students to examine how their own lives have been influenced by and could contribute to the many legacies of the long civil rights movement. (Contains 19 notes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Society for History Education. California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840-1601. Tel: 562-985-2573; Fax: 562-985-5431; Web site: http://www.thehistoryteacher.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10