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Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years
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The Office of Equity and Human Rights hosted educator and author Bill Bigelow on January 25, 2024.
Too many children still learn that "Columbus discovered America." But that myth teaches harmful lessons -- not only about Columbus and the Taino people who Columbus encountered, but about whose lives matter in the school curriculum, whose voices count, and whose don't. In this presentation, Bigelow examines children's literature on Columbus's voyages to the Americas to explore the "secret education" that young people absorb. He also will share how we can help young people think more critically and thoughtfully about history - and our world today.
Bill Bigelow is curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and co-director of the Zinn Education Project. He is the author or co-editor of many Rethinking Schools publications, including A People's History for the Classroom, The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration, Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World, Rethinking Our Classrooms - Volumes 1 and 2, Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, and A People's Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis. Bigelow lives in Portland, Oregon.
This presentation is sponsored by the City of Iowa City's Office of Equity and Human Rights and is part of the Office's monthly Lens Webinar Series.
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