“I Don’t Know . . . I’m Not Sure”: Civic and Ethical Reasoning on Just and Unjust War

• In Event: Harrowing Histories: Teaching and Learning for an Engaged Citizenry

Abstract

Borrowing data from three design studies examining how students experience a four-week unit focused on a more critical examination of America’s wars, this manuscript details the changing perspectives of nine students’ definition a just war. Using student essays, student notebooks, observation and interview data, this article explores what classroom activities challenged and impacted student understanding.

Author

• Brian C. Gibbs, Georgia College & State University