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ERIC Number: EJ656582
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0093-3104
"Making History Go" at a Local Community Center: Popular Media and the Construction of Historical Knowledge among African American Youth.
Dimitriadis, Greg
Theory and Research in Social Education, v28 n1 p40-64 Win 2000
Looks at how young people use historical knowledge, gained from media sources, to deal with current situations. A group of young African Americans draw on behavioral examples from the film, "Panther," instead of school-based learning, to give them ways to deal with the Ku Klux Klan in their neighborhood. (DAJ)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Educational Research, Films, Focus Groups, History Instruction, Popular Culture, Secondary Education, Social Studies, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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