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"Voices in Wartime" curriculum at Bellevue and Shoreline Community Colleges

Shoreline Community College;
This fall, a class at Shoreline Community College in north Seattle is using the
Voices in Wartime Education Project
to spark deep discussions about a painful topic. To the complete surprise of the teacher, almost every student is attending every session of a class at 7:30 AM. For many, this is the first time they have been prompted to think seriously about a subject they have previously avoided.

Bellevue Community College;
During the whole of the 2006-2007 school year, a campus-wide program sponsored by the Center for the Liberal Arts at Bellevue Community College is incorporating
Voices in Wartime Education Project
into its programming and events:


my added note; Voices in Wartime is a Seattle based enterprise and let's hope it serves as a prototype for schools all across the country - kudos and way to go Seattle - way to go Washington state! We have some very dedicated people at work in this state in different venues trying to bring attention to Iraq war, help our military and their families in what continues to be an uphill climb. Pushing that rock up the mountain has to be a better alternative than sinking in hopeless futility into the cesspool.

(click on full story to read more detail below fold)

 

 at Bellevue Community College (continued)

    * Teachers from a broad mix of arts, humanities, and social sciences will be using the Voices in Wartime DVD, Anthology, and Curricula in their classes, including English composition, literature, sociology, history, political science, communications, drama, and English as a Second Language.
    * In a program called BCC Reads! thousands of students will read and discuss an extraordinary novel, The Things They Carried, by Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brian.
    * The campus radio station, KBCS, will broadcast a 25-weeklong series of Voices in Wartime stories told by students who are witnesses of war, whether they are combat veterans or family members of veterans, war refugees, or their relatives.
    * The weekly student newspaper, The Jibsheet, will publish Voices in Wartime stories from students based on their experiences and reactions to war.
    * A BCC faculty member, acting as a story curator, will work with other teachers to help a thousand or more students publish their essays and narratives on the Voices in Wartime website.

The Voices in Wartime Education Project is using art, dialogue, and education to create healing and social change - in the midst of an ongoing war. Our focus this year is to build a powerful and successful model - an educational program using the Voices in Wartime DVD, Anthology,  and Curricula that can have a deep and lasting affect on thousands of students and teachers nationwide.

A Teachable Moment in America?

Three and a half years after the invasion of Iraq, I believe our country is nearing an historic "teachable moment" when we may be open to new insight into how we can live in a more sustainable and peaceful world. Out of the chaos and wreckage of war might come a new understanding of the terrible human cost of war, and the legacy of trauma created by war. And we might arrive at new wisdom that will help us discover peaceful alternatives to war

Voices in Wartime,
4509 Interlake Ave. N. #263,
Seattle, WA 98103-6782
Phone - 206-632-7587

Home -  http://voicesinwartime.org

About the Movie - http://voicesinwartime.org/movie.htm

About the Education Project- http://voicesinwartime.org/about.htm

Contact Us - http://voicesinwartime.org/contact.htm
Email - info@voicesinwartime.org
Phone - 206-632-7587

Voices in Wartime is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that aims to transform how we respond to, engage in, and recover from conflict, through education and the arts. The Education Project offers tools, philosophies, and learning methods that can help us transform the conditions under which conflict becomes intractable and violent.

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My granddaughter's poem posted to Voices in Wartime. Two more of my grandchildren also at Voices in Wartime - photo of son-in-law with two of his children at Seatac Airport entitled 'Let's Go Home Son' when he was home from Iraq on R&R leave. That is his little son walking alongside him while he carries his baby daughter.  

a poem by my granddaughter, written when she was 11 yrs old, Aug 2003 on her parent's deployment to Iraq.  I have permission to publish her poem.

Went to War

      written by Miranda, age 11,
          August 2003

A long time has passed
feels like forever
It was like you were there
then vanished.

I never really wanted you to go
but life's unfair
and that I know

Sometimes I wonder
would these 7 months be the same if you were here?
Mom's always crying
One by one with a tear.

I know you'll come back someday
some time
I wish it was now
right now,
then I'll be fine

We miss you a lot

My granddaughter is 14 yrs old now, entering her freshman year of high school.  I pray earnestly that by the time she is college age she will not be participating in Voices in Wartime curriculum while her own family is not still subjected to the repeat deployments in Iraq and/or Middle East. Please help me accomplish a situation where she is learning with other college students in 2010 after the fact of Iraq invasion/occupation and not as part of the ongoing situation in 2010; a short 4 years away.

Next - may no military recruiter entice my two high school freshman granddaughters via the No Child Left Behind that causes schools to give personal contact information to military recruiters who are allowed onto high school campuses to actively recruit high school students for military service.

My three adult children who are into their 30s now went through their school years never learning one thing about Vietnam war in which their father was deployed.  Kudos to Voices in Wartime for giving educators valued tools to use in their schools keeping Iraq invasion/occupation alive in discussion as part of valid history our children should learn.  They ought to be entitled to formulate ideas born of their own critical thinking skills having had the exposure to legitimate discussion before their opinions get formed by political forumulated rhetoric and propaganda, as was done this past 3 + years on the issue of Iraq.  

On the Surge in Iraq "--we have set the bar so low it's buried in the sand at this point." - Barack Obama

by Lietta Ruger on Sun Nov 19, 2006 at 03:32:29 PM PST

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