The mission project : teaching history and avoiding the past in California elementary schools
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This three-article dissertation specifically examines one challenging element of teaching history to young children: the representation of historical violence and adversity, using fourth grade curriculum and instruction surrounding the topic of Spanish colonization of California as a case study. This era, known as the Spanish mission period in California, is a violent and controversial historical period that is recommended by California's fourth grade level history/social science standards. The topic provides fertile ground for an in-depth study of how young children are introduced to the violent past in their early academic experiences. The data in the dissertation, drawn from textbooks, classroom instruction, and field trips to historic sites, illustrate ways in which formal education manages to avoid the violence of colonialism, presenting it instead as necessary progress. The third article presents data from an Indigenous (Ohlone) led museum of California colonial history, and presents a case in which educators are able to build a counternarrative to the dominant colonial story.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Keenan, Harper Benjamin |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Labaree, David F, 1947- |
| Degree supervisor | Lit, Ira W |
| Thesis advisor | Labaree, David F, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Lit, Ira W |
| Thesis advisor | Madley, Benjamin |
| Thesis advisor | Willinsky, John, 1950- |
| Degree committee member | Madley, Benjamin |
| Degree committee member | Willinsky, John, 1950- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Harper Benjamin Keenan. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Harper Benjamin Keenan
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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