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The Perils of Nuclear Education |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: W. Wesley McDonald |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,161 Words, 13,081 Characters |
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ARMAGEDDON IN THE CLASSROOM
An Examination of Nuclear Education
Herbert I. London
Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc.
127 pp.
To introduce a unit on nuclear weapons to a group of tenth graders, they are shown Hiroshima/Nagasaki, a film depicting in grisly detail the horrifying death and maiming of Japanese women and children following the dropping of American atomic bombs. Stunned by the spectacle, one emotionally distraught student asks, "Why did we do it?" "We did it once; we can do it again," the teacher answers. "Whether these weapons of destruction are used depends on you."
After discussing their personal expectations for the future, a seventh-grade social studies class was shocked when their teacher dismissed all their optimistic hopes by griml...
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...e contemplating addressing the situation. He leaves to others the problem of devising the means by which sanity can be brought back to school curricula.
An impressively researched bibliography of curriculum guides, teacher resources, and secondary sources on nuclear education is included also, which readers interested in investigating this issue further will find particularly useful.
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