Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching: A curriculum guide
for K-12 classrooms
The Network of Educators on the Americas (NECA) & the Poverty and Race
Research Action Council (PRRAC) invite you to submit materials for
"Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching," a K-12
curriculum guide, to be followed by a series of professional development
institutes.
Taught as a multifaceted people's struggle for social justice, the Civil
Rights Movement can help students develop a critical
analysis of racism and resistance by enabling them understand their role
in implementing social change. The publication will explore citizenship,
education and labor, analyzing the Movement through the following
lenses: youth, women, culture, organizing,
institutional racism and other social movements (national and
international).
We seek interactive, interdisciplinary, participatory, and academically
rigorous lessons written from a critical perspective. All
submissions should include handouts (readings, graphics, and/or
interviews). In appreciation for materials selected for inclusion we
will offer $100 and a free copy of the publication. Authors will be
credited in the book and hold copyright for their text. We hope
that you will join us in our effort to create this dynamic publication.
Submit lessons and other materials by February 28, 2001 to:
NECA/Teaching for Change
PO Box 73038
Washington, DC 20056-3038
(800) 763.9131
necadc@aol.com
www.teachingforchange.org
NECA and PRRAC are grateful for all submitted materials. Publication
date is Summer 2001.
Submitted by:
Helen Butts
neca@teachingforchange.org
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