The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources

The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources

by Marc J. Gilbert
The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources

The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources

by Marc J. Gilbert

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Overview

In many secondary schools, colleges, and universities across the country, the study of the Vietnam War has become a standard part of the curriculum. In this work, editor Marc Jason Gilbert has organized essays that are designed to serve the needs of the instructors currently teaching or planning to institute such courses. Each essay, written by a leading scholar in his or her field, addresses specific teaching strategies and resources, surveying approaches and providing a detailed examination of those issues that teachers have identified as the most useful or important.

The book seeks to furbanish instructors with the methods to present the war's broad perspective and complexity to a classroom. It begins with a discussion of some of the major interpretive stances, approaches, and issues that may be pursued in teaching about Vietnam. Subsequent chapters address the operational issues of the air war and misconceptions concerning guerilla war and counterinsurgency; the nature of people's wars; the effectiveness of decision-making and foreign policy-making analysis as classroom learning techniques; the need to place the war in the context of Indochinese, American, and world history; the use of teaching strategies and resources derived from literature, film, and the voice of the veteran; the use of Asian, European, and American literary sources to gain insight into the experience of the Vietnamese people; the anti-war movement; issues of peace, sex, and ethnicity; the integration of such approaches and issues into a course on the war; the use of materials drawn from the Vietnam War to further students' analytical skills; innovative ways of bringing primary printed sources into the classroom; and the strength and weaknesses of Vietnam War classroom texts and key monographs. The book concludes with a guide to further resources and a selection of Vietnam War course syllabi employed by scholars active in the field. This work will be a major resource for teachers and those studying to be teachers, as well as for courses on the Vietnam War, Southeast Asia, and U.S. History and Politics.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313277405
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/20/1991
Series: Contributions in Military Studies , #10
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

MARC JASON GILBERT is a Professor of History at North Georgia College. Specializing in South and Southeast Asian History, he is the author of numerous jourbanal articles and reviews.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Running the Sweep Line: The Search for an Interpretive Stance by Larry Cable
An Approach to Teaching the Air War by Earl H. Tilford, Jr.
Teaching "People's War of National Liberation" by Cecil Currey
A Decision-Making Approach to Understanding American Policy-Makers by John James MacDougall
Teaching the Dynamics of the Conflict by Melford Wilson, Jr.
Broadening the Horizons of a Course on the "American War" in Vietnam by Marc Jason Gilbert
Novels About the "Other Side" by Gerald Berkley
Introducing World Literature Into a Course on the Vietnam War by Jonathan Goldstein
American Literature and Film of the Vietnam War: Classroom Strategies and Critical Sources by Catherine Calloway
When History Talks Back: The Voice of the Veteran by Kali Tal
The Role of Critical Thinking in a Course on the Vietnam War by Marc Jason Gilbert
Using Primary Sources by Steve Potts
Texts and Auxiliary Resources by Joe P. Dunn
A Guide to Curriculum Development Resources by Marc Jason Gilbert
Appendix: Selected Course Syllabi
Index

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