"It's Just Too Big...I Don't Know What to Do": Toward Teaching War Through a Lens of Critical Civic Literacy

• In Event: Critical Approaches to Democratic Education

Abstract

This paper describes a design study examining how student sense of critical civic agency can be bolstered through a unit of instruction focused on war. The unit of instruction examined war through a critical lens and focused on anti-war movements.

Author

• Brian C. Gibbs, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill