Zinn Education Project

JULY 24, 2024

Jarvis Givens is a professor of education and faculty affiliate in the department of African & African American studies at Harvard University. As an interdisciplinary scholar, he specializes in 19th and 20th century African American history, history of education, and theories of race and power in education.

Pedagogy 92

Pedagogy Archiving American History History 92

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E.

History 104

History Teaching Sociology Oral History 104

4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

Generic accounts of thinking skills often treat document reading and analysis as the bread-and-butter of history teaching and learning. This mistake — the narrowing of history pedagogy to “document analysis” — reflects another mistake: confusing novices for experts. Plan it out. So, reading primary sources is great.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources Artifacts Archiving Social Studies 40