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TC Debuts New Curriculum on Vietnam War
Published: Friday, June 19, 2009
Teachers College will host a special four-day social studies course, “Vietnam Now,” which will include never-before-broadcast footage from the 1981 WGBH series “Vietnam: A Television History,” and live talks by a large cast of experts, including 1960s cultural historian Todd Gitlin and Vietnam War historian Charles Armstrong, both of Columbia University, and Vietnam War veteran and author W.D. Ehrhart.
The course, which will be offered from June 29th to July 2nd on the Teachers College campus in New York City, is targeted to secondary school and college educators, who will then adapt the curriculum for their own students. Members of the media are welcome and should contact Joe Levine at 212 678-3176. More information about “Vietnam Now,” including the full agenda for the four day course, can be viewed by clicking here. Additionally, a course syllabus can be downloaded here.
Margaret Crocco and Bill Gaudelli, faculty members in Teachers College’s Social Studies and Education program, designed the course. It is based on footage from a 13-part documentary on the Vietnam War produced by WGBH in Boston for public television during the 1980s. Crocco and Gaudelli have access to many additional hours of footage that have never been pub
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Student Research Conference on Educational Equity
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