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Jennifer Manise Heather SingmasterLongview Foundation Asia Society

Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History – Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher

Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History – Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher

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@longviewglobal@nationalhistory

Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History – Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher

Craig PerrierHigh School Social Studies SpecialistFairfax County Public SchoolsFairfax, VA

Noralee FrankelConsultantNational History Day

Dale SteinerProfessor, HistoryCalifornia State University Chico

Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History – Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher

Noralee FrankelConsultantNational History Day

• National History Day is a highly regarded academic program for middle school and secondary school students

• Each year students, encouraged by thousands of teachers nationwide participate in the National History Day contest.

What is National History Day?

• In addition to discovering the exciting world of the past, National History Day also helps students develop the following attributes that are critical for future success:

• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills• Oral and written communication and

presentation skills• Self-esteem and confidence• A sense of responsibility for and involvement in

the democratic process

U.S. History in Global Perspective

Co-edited by Mark Johnson, history teacher at Concordia International School in Shanghai and NHD affiliate coordinator for Asia and Noralee Frankel, Independent Historian

• Teaching and Learning for the Real WorldNHD Embodies and Fosters 21st Century Skills and Common Core State StandardsJoan Ruddiman, Thomas R. Grover Middle School

• Globalizing National History Day’s Annual Themes

Noralee Frankel

• The Global American Revolution

Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire

• Land Labor and Loss

The role of indigenous land rights in Nineteenth century Nation-State formation in the United States of America, Australia and India

Whitney Howarth, Plymouth State University

• All the PeopleEpidemic Diseases in the U.S. and the World George Dehner, Wichita State University

• The American Civil War

Ryan Campbell

British International School, Jakarta

• Becoming Chinese in America

Giving Voice to the Chinese in the American West

Mark Johnson, Concordia International School Shanghai

• Salem as a Global Village

Industrialization, Deindustrialization, and Immigration in a New England City Aviva Chomsky, Salem State University

• The Civil Rights Movement in Global Perspective

Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan

Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History – Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher

Craig PerrierSocial Studies SpecialistFairfax County Public SchoolsConsultantNational Council for History Educationhttp://cperrier.edublogs.org

Globalizing the US History Survey

“History education “at its best is critical, exciting, thought-provoking, frustratingly ambiguous

and uncertain. It is the reflective element of the collective mind.” Richard Overy

1Theory and Background 2Paradigm

Shift 3NCHEProject

Theory and Background

• 1916 “Transnational History” - Randolph Bourne• 2000 La Pietra Report - OAH• 2006 The New Global History - Bruce Mazlish• 2006 A Nation Among Nations - Thomas Bender• 2007 Transnational Nation - Ian Tyrrell

“The nation-state has not been able to exhaust the identifications of the individual…Modern nation-states have to confront or engage with other historical representations of community.”

Prasenjit Duara in Rescuing History from the Nation

Theory and Background

Global

• History without a center

• A web of networks and systems

• Example – Cold War Narrative

Transnational

• Nodes of actors located across regions

• National histories don’t end at the border

• Example – Multinational Organization

Paradigm Shift

• Demands of Contemporary Education• Instructional Change• Not an “add on” in Teaching• Way of Knowing: Context and Contingency • Addresses Binary Thought, the Marginalized,

Agency, and Othering

“We should hold under suspicion any word that describes a chunk of the story while claiming universal relevance. Words such as progress, development, modernity, nation-state, and globalization.”

Michel-Rolph Trouillot in Global Transformations

Paradigm Shift

NCHE Project: Globalizing the US History Survey

• Overview of Project– Global… (ization, Awareness, Competencies, Intelligence– Target Audience– Professional Development– Open Source– Theory and Utility– Longevity

“Recent discussions of globalization . . . invite more complex understandings of the American nation's relation to a world that is at once self-consciously global and highly pluralized.”

La Pietra Report

NCHE Project: Globalizing the US History Survey

• Five module topics1. Interwar U.S. Foreign Policy: The Myth of U.S. Isolationism

1920-19402. Beyond a Bipolar Cold War: Teaching Global Geo-Politics

1945-19733. Civil Rights are Human Rights: Global Contexts of Equality in

the 20th Century4. Multi-National Companies and International Organizations in

US History5. Situating the U.S. in Globalization Paradigms 1980-2012

• Features- Badges - Netvibes Page - Social Media - Collaborative Timeline- History Thinking Skills - Historian Presentations

Conclusion “Over time and cultures, the most robust and most effective form of communication is the creation of a powerful narrative.”

Howard Gardner

Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History – Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher

Dale SteinerProfessor, HistoryCalifornia State University ChicoChair, Board of TrusteesNational Council for History Education

Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History – Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher

Resources

http://asiasociety.org/education/resources-schools/term

http://www.nche.net/home

http://www.nhd.org/

http://www.longviewfdn.org/66/resources.html

http://cperrier.edublogs.org

Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History – Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher

Questions from the Audience

Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History – Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher

Next Webinar from the States Network on International Education in the Schools

September/October 2013

Connecting Global Competence to Teacher Preparation