Teaching the New Deal, 1932-1941

Teaching the New Deal, 1932-1941

by Charlotte L. JohnsonCaroline R. Pryor Michael E. Karpyn and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 27/09/2022

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This volume provides pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, social studies methods teachers, and college level social studies content faculty a variety of resources for teaching and learning about the New Deal Era. Written with teachers in mind, each chapter introduces content that both addresses and disrupts master narratives concerning the historical significance of the New Deal era, while offering a creative pedagogical approach to reconciling instructional challenges. The book offers teachers a variety of ways to engage middle and high school students in economic and political arguments about American capitalism and the role of the federal government in defining and sustaining capitalism, as sparked by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. Among the significant actors in the chapters are women, Indigenous/Native, African-descended, Latinx, Asian Pacific Island, and LGBTQ+ people. The New Deal generation included farmers, sharecroppers, industrial workers, and homemakers who were more willing than ever to question the capitalists and politicians in official leadership, and also willing to demand an economy and government that served the working and middle classes, as well as the wealthy. Roosevelt’s New Deal offered such a promise. For some, he was considered a class traitor who went too far. To others, he was considered a coward who did not go far enough. The legacies of the New Deal inform much of the public debate of the early 21st century and are, therefore, relevant for classroom examination.

ISBN:
9781433184437
9781433184437
Category:
Education
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
27-09-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
James Mitchell

Dr Jim Mitchell lectured in history at the University of Melbourne in the 1970s and 1980s, was a Curator of eighteenth-century books at the British Library from 1979 to 1982, was Deputy Director of the Melbourne University Counselling Service in the 1980s and 1990s, and was Archivist at Scotch College in the 2000s. He has written six other books, all non-fiction.

While living in London Dr Mitchell sat on the Council of the British Section of Amnesty International. He divides his time between inner-city Melbourne and rural Gippsland.

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