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Scholarly Inquiry

Scholarly Inquiry: Bill Bigelow

Prepared For: Dr. M. Dunn

Prepared By: Jonothan Brown

EDCI 610

4/24/07

Table of Contents

Bill Bigelow: Background…………………………………………………………3

Educational Themes and Beliefs………………………………………………… 4

Dispute Questions………………………………………………………………… 7

Bigelow's Educational Philosophy………………………………………………. 10

Works Cited………………………………………………………………………. 13

Bill Bigelow: Background

Bill Bigelow has taught high school in Portland, Oregon since 1978. Between 1991 and 1993, he led workshops with teachers throughout the country using the Columbus myth to draw attention to racial biases in the school curriculum. He is an editor of the education reform journal, Rethinking Schools, and is the author of Strangers in Their Own Country: A Curriculum Guide on South Africa (Africa World Press, 1985), and The Power in Our Hands: A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States (with Norm Diamond, Monthly Review Press, 1988). He has co-edited four books with Rethinking Schools: Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice (1994), Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice, Volume 2 (2001), and, with Bob Peterson, Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World (2002). Bigelow has also authored several teaching guides for films and videos, including most recently for the Academy Award-nominated film, Regret to Inform (1998).This information was provided by an interview with B. Bigelow conducted by Kelly Schrum in March 2002.
In the interview conducted with Mr. Bigelow, he shared some of his background and also some of his educational views and experiences. He explained how he first started teaching the 1973–74 school year in an alternative school in Cincinnati, Ohio with six other Antioch college students. He says his first "regular" teaching job began in the fall of 1978 at Grant High School in Portland, Oregon.
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