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The Vietnam War - Teaching Approaches and Resources (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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The Vietnam War - Teaching Approaches and Resources (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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In many secondary schools, colleges, and universities across the
country, the study of the Vietnam War has become a standard part of
the curriculum. In this work, editor Marc Jason Gilbert has
organized essays that are designed to serve the needs of the
instructors currently teaching or planning to institute such
courses. Each essay, written by a leading scholar in his or her
field, addresses specific teaching strategies and resources,
surveying approaches and providing a detailed examination of those
issues that teachers have identified as the most useful or
important. The book seeks to furnish instructors with the methods
to present the war's broad perspective and complexity to a
classroom. It begins with a discussion of some of the major
interpretive stances, approaches, and issues that may be pursued in
teaching about Vietnam. Subsequent chapters address the operational
issues of the air war and misconceptions concerning guerilla war
and counterinsurgency; the nature of "people's wars"; the
effectiveness of decision-making and foreign policy-making analysis
as classroom learning techniques; the need to place the war in the
context of Indochinese, American, and world history; the use of
teaching strategies and resources derived from literature, film,
and the voice of the veteran; the use of Asian, European, and
American literary sources to gain insight into the experience of
the Vietnamese people; the anti-war movement; issues of peace, sex,
and ethnicity; the integration of such approaches and issues into a
course on the war; the use of materials drawn from the Vietnam War
to further students' analytical skills; innovative ways of bringing
primary printed sources into the classroom; and the strength and
weaknesses of Vietnam War classroom texts and key monographs. The
book concludes with a guide to further resources and a selection of
Vietnam War course syllabi employed by scholars active in the
field. This work will be a major resource for teachers and those
studying to be teachers, as well as for courses on the Vietnam War,
Southeast Asia, and U.S. History and Politics.
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