Virginia Schools in the Atomic Age
Author : Virginia. Commission on Public Education
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Education
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Author : Virginia. Commission on Public Education
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Education
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Author : Michael Scheibach
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476612668
Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, numerous "atomic narratives"--books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks, movies, and television programs--addressed the implications of the bomb. Post-World War II youth encountered atomic narratives in their daily lives at school, at home and in their communities, and were profoundly affected by what they read and saw. This multidisciplinary study examines the exposure of American youth to atomic narratives during the ten years following World War II. In addition, it examines the broader "social narrative of the atom," which included educational, social, cultural, and political activities that surrounded and involved American youth. The activities ranged from school and community programs to movies and television shows to government-sponsored traveling exhibits on atomic energy. The book also presents numerous examples of writings by postwar adolescents, who clearly expressed their conflicted feelings about growing up in such a tumultuous time, and shows how many of the issues commonly associated with the sixties generation, such as peace, fellowship, free expression, and environmental concern, can be traced to this earlier generation.
Author : Virginia. Commission on Public Education
Publisher :
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Education
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Author : Michael Scheibach
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 1476622981
After the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan's unconditional surrender, America's educational community quickly focused on preparing the younger generation for the atomic age. With the support of the federal government, elementary and secondary schools developed a curriculum known as "atomics," emphasizing the bomb's destructive power, peaceful applications of the atom and, most important, the need to control nuclear research. By the 1950s, with the Soviet Union's acquiring of the bomb, "atomics" expanded to include civil defense topics and activities, such as "duck and cover" drills. This book examines the broad curriculum--in social studies, science, mathematics, English, home economics and art--that emphasized atomics in American classrooms of the early postwar era. Lesson plans, class projects and activities, resource materials and extracurricular experiences are included.
Author : Agnes Elizabeth Benedict
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Education, Secondary
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Author : Alison Fields
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0806166843
On two separate days in August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of these cataclysmic bombings draws near, American and Japanese citizens are seeking new ways to memorialize these events for future generations. In Discordant Memories, Alison Fields explores—through the lenses of multiple disciplines—ongoing memories of the two bombings. Enhanced by striking color and black-and-white images, this book is an innovative contribution to the evolving fields of memory studies and nuclear humanities. To reveal the layered complexities of nuclear remembrance, Fields analyzes photography, film, and artworks; offers close readings of media and testimonial accounts; traces site visits to atomic museums in New Mexico and Japan; and features artists who give visual form to evolving memories. According to Fields, such expressions of memory both inspire group healing and expose struggles with past trauma. Visual forms of remembrance—such as science museums, peace memorials, photographs, and even scars on human bodies—serve to contain or manage painful memories. And yet, the author claims, distinct cultures lay claim to vastly different remembrances of nuclear history. Fields analyzes a range of case studies to uncover these discordant memories and to trace the legacies of nuclear weapons production and testing. Her subjects include the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan; the atomic photography of Carole Gallagher and Patrick Nagatani; and artworks and experimental films by Will Wilson and Nanobah Becker. In the end, Fields argues, the trauma caused by nuclear weapons can never be fully contained. For this reason, commemorations of their effects are often incomplete and insufficient. Differences between individual memories and public accounts are also important to recognize. Discordant Memories illuminates such disparate memories in all their rich complexity.
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Education
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Education
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Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Education
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Author : John Randolph McCraw
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Education, Higher
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