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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


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Craig PerrierHigh School Social Studies SpecialistFairfax County Public SchoolsFairfax, VA

Noralee FrankelConsultantNational History Day

Dale SteinerProfessor, HistoryCalifornia State University Chico


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


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

http://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


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


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

September/October 2013

Connecting Global Competence to Teacher Preparation