Jon and Matt are joined by Dan, our co-worker, good friend, and fellow educator, to discuss the responsibilities of being a history teacher in the United States.
We discuss:
- Trump's absurdly silly "patriotic education" manifesto
- How many social studies teachers have been derelict at their duties
- Why there is absolutely no need to give "both sides" or play devil's advocate to all issues
- How Trump's pathological idea of American exceptionalism is already pervasive in nearly all institutions in society
- The consequences of history teachers reaffirming a curriculum based in American exceptionalism
Mentioned on the podcast:
Gerald Horne's Counter Revolution of 1776
Noam Chomsky on the "Salt water fallacy," the false idea that American imperialism did not begin until 1898.
Corresponding Post: A Teacher's Declaration of War on Patriotic Education
Read our "In the Context of Empire" blog with corresponding and expanded posts to this content!
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