Teaching Social Foundations of Education

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It happens each semester. I start my social establishments of instruction

courses by getting an enormous, encircled banner of a Sioux Medicine Man. It is a

striking highly contrasting photo of a man remaining solitary on a slope,

looking off into the separation, holding a long wooden line, a wild ox skull at

his feet. It is an honorable, disheartening, and clear picture.1

So I request that my understudies experience what I state will be the standard daily schedule

of depiction, reflection, and basic investigation. They precisely depict the

photo, taking note of the removed at this point pleased look on the man’s face. They consider how little they genuinely know about Native American culture and how miserable

the historical backdrop of these people groups has been. Furthermore, they (likely) evaluate American culture for wantonly obliterating such a person.

I reveal to them that they made an awesome showing: a brilliant activity, that is, of articulating precisely what the picture taker Edward Curtis (1868-1952)

needed them to see. I clarify how Curtis, effectively a notable picture taker at that point, went to see a Montana Blackfeet Indian Sundance in

1900. How, from that experience, he persuaded President Theodore Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan to subsidize a multiyear odyssey around the North

American mainland to photo, paint, and portray for people in the future each and every Indian clan still in presence at that point.