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Scott Culclasure's book brushes history teaching against the grain. He has provided a powerful and eloquent meditation on the emptiness of so much of what passes for history in our schools; its disconnection from the lives of students, its abstractness and blandness. Drawing on his knowledge and experience as both scholar and public schoolteacher, Culclasure offers us a moving exploration of what it means to teach history as cultural memory and as human possibility. He has produced a pedagogic vision that is, at once, Freire, Benjamin, and Dewey. History for Culclasure is a vehicle for students to see how the present world has come to be what it is. It provides them, too, with those 'dangerous memories' through which they may come to see how injustice and inhumanity have been challenged. Most important, it offers students the means to find purpose and identity as they see themselves connected to the hopes and struggles of previous generations. This book should be read by all those who still retain some faith that education has an ethical and social purpose beyond today's concerns with test scores and academic efficiency. (Svi Shapiro, Professor of Education and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

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The Author: Scott P. Culclasure is International Baccalaureate Coordinator at High Point Central High School, in the Guilford County, North Carolina, school district. He received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In addition to publishing in history journals, he has coedited The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South.

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