Publications by Adam Bush
Building People's Histories: Graduate Student Pedagogy, Undergraduate Education, and Collaboration with Community Partners Genevieve Carpio; Sharon Luk; Adam Bush Journal of American History 2013 99: 1176-1188, Mar 2013
When Howard Zinn died in 2010, he was heralded for his longtime commitment to education and his a... more When Howard Zinn died in 2010, he was heralded for his longtime commitment to education and his award-winning A People's History of the United States (1980). His popular revision of U.S. history foregrounded the actions and choices of everyday people over conventional leaders and heroes. In the tradition of radical pedagogy, from Paulo Freire to bell hooks, Zinn's work critiqued educational practices that trained students merely to comply with the status quo rather than to question it. Zinn argued instead that the purpose of social studies was to imbue students with the desire to change the world. Despite its popularity at the high school level, Zinn's work has been adopted in less than 2 percent of all undergraduate U.S. history survey courses, revealing a reticence that reflects scholarly and journalistic debates concerned with such problems as accuracy, polarization, and critiques of the text as either too politically fatalistic or, from alternate angles, idealized. Nonetheless, the broad commitment to social change and popular engagement signified by "people's history" has been powerfully generative, inspiring numerous adaptations across print, performance, and electronic media. People's history has thus come to represent a wide range of pedagogical engagements that push for more complex and dynamic historical analyses. Each of these approaches emphasizes the role of working classes, women, and racially marginalized people in creating social change; it also highlights the role students themselves play, building on past struggles and shaping the future through their actions in the present. 1
Papers by Adam Bush
eJournal of Public Affairs, 2019
Those who attended the 2018 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting (CLDE18) held in Ana... more Those who attended the 2018 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting (CLDE18) held in Anaheim, California, from June 6 to 9, are aware of the expertise shared and the synergy created among the participants working toward the advancement of civic learning and democratic engagement on campuses and in communities. This special issue of the eJournal of Public Affairshighlights exemplary work that was presented at the meeting and that has since been further developed into peer-reviewed scholarship ready for broaderdissemination. Readers who attended CLDE18 will be reinvigorated by this collection of articles, while those who could not participate can now join the conversation. Though the journal editors considered manuscripts describing a number of exemplary programs, this special issue focuses on projects related to innovative civic engagement teaching pedagogy.
New England Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Journal of American History, 2013
When Howard Zinn died in 2010, he was heralded for his longtime commitment to education and his a... more When Howard Zinn died in 2010, he was heralded for his longtime commitment to education and his award-winning A People's History of the United States (1980). His popular revision of U.S. history foregrounded the actions and choices of everyday people over conventional leaders and heroes. In the tradition of radical pedagogy, from Paulo Freire to bell hooks, Zinn's work critiqued educational practices that trained students merely to comply with the status quo rather than to question it. Zinn argued instead that the purpose of social studies was to imbue students with the desire to change the world. Despite its popularity at the high school level, Zinn's work has been adopted in less than 2 percent of all undergraduate U.S. history survey courses, revealing a reticence that reflects scholarly and journalistic debates concerned with such problems as accuracy, polarization, and critiques of the text as either too politically fatalistic or, from alternate angles, idealized. Nonetheless, the broad commitment to social change and popular engagement signified by "people's history" has been powerfully generative, inspiring numerous adaptations across print, performance, and electronic media. People's history has thus come to represent a wide range of pedagogical engagements that push for more complex and dynamic historical analyses. Each of these approaches emphasizes the role of working classes, women, and racially marginalized people in creating social change; it also highlights the role students themselves play, building on past struggles and shaping the future through their actions in the present. 1 Genevieve Carpio is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (). Sharon Luk is a recent graduate of the program and will assume a lecturer position in Stanford University's humanities program, Thinking Matters, beginning in January 2012. Adam Bush is a Ph.D. candidate in 's Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the national director of graduate education for Imagining America (www.imaginingamerica.org), and the founding director of Curriculum for College Unbound
The Next Generation Engagement Project comprises a cross-disciplinary collection of civically eng... more The Next Generation Engagement Project comprises a cross-disciplinary collection of civically engaged scholars at various stages in their careers. They are exploring new ways to conceptualize the development of the next generation of leaders of civic engagement in higher ...
is the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility and the founding director of t... more is the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility and the founding director of the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School. Her areas of teaching and research include institutional change, structural inequality in employment and higher education, diversity and innovation, employment discrimination, public law remedies, conflict resolution, and civil procedure. She has published numerous articles, case studies, and books on "the architecture of inclusion," institutional change, transformative leadership, workplace equality, legal education, and inclusion and diversity in higher education.
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Publications by Adam Bush
Papers by Adam Bush