Nearly 2 million Vietnamese immigrants escaped to the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, many of them prospering in America's $8 billion nail economy. This PPT provides K-12 educators with a historical background of Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and the diaspora to the United States and western Pennsylvania that followed in the 1970s and 80s in the hopes of creating new lives and opportunities for their families. Resources for the use of digital mapping to teach this history are also included in the PPT.
Ideally, the PPT should be accompanied by Adele Pham's documentary about the Vietnamese diaspora and multi-billion dollar nail industry, "Nailed It."
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Presentation Slides (e.g PowerPoint)
Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary
Intended Audience:
9-12
Using the theme of Global Labor, this workshop explores the book, K-Pop Confidential, by Stephan Lee. This contemporary novel examines the high-pressure world of K-pop training, offering insights into the demands of creative labor, cultural identity, and personal ambition.
Intended Audience:
K-12
In this presentation, Dr. Brenda G. Jordan and Stephen Wludarski of the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia discuss Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura, a novel about murder, retribution, and the deadly effect of smallpox in a struggling coastal Japanese fishing village. The board game "Shipwrecks" is also introduced.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This curriculum component shares strategies for incorporating the history of Taiwan and themes related to the science fiction fantasy genre through the YA novel, "Want".
Intended Audience:
K-12
The theme of Globalizing Marginalized Voices is explored through the book Hunter School by Sakinu Ahronglong. This book shares Ahronglong's recollections, folklore, and autobiographical stories from the perspective of an Indigenous Taiwanese man trying to reconnect with his lost tribal identity.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This curriculum resource utilizes Conor Grennan's book, Little Princes, in in the context of Human Security to discuss Nepal's child workers. The book offers a way to look at the topic of globalization, child labor, and human rights.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This PPT shares ways to teach about the topic of migration and diaspora through the true story of "To Swim Across the World" authors Frances and Ginger Park's parents Sei-Young and Heisook Park.
Intended Audience:
9-12
Using the book, Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario, this workshop explores the themes of Migration, Gentrification, and Displacement and asks the questions: How do people deal with the challenges of moving across borders, seeing others move into the places where they live, and perhaps having to move elsewhere as a result? What is the relationship between these different kinds of moving and the ways that people experience them? And what factors are most significant in shaping such relationships and experiences?
Intended Audience:
K-12
This online K-12 educator workshop explores the topic of migration today through the global lens of politics, economics, and climatic changes. Using modern-day migration case studies, the presenters share content and pedagogical strategies to help introduce or extend current study of the topic of migration in the classroom.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This curriculum module explores the history of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule through the baseball film, Kano. The film depicts the true story of the Kagi Agricultural and Forestry School (Kano) baseball team, an underdog, multi-ethnic team of Chinese, Indigenous Taiwanese, and Japanese high school players, who defied the odds to reach the 1931 Japanese High School Baseball Championship. While Korea’s experience as a Japanese colony is often discussed in textbooks, the module looks to highlight the unique contours of Taiwan’s colonial experience as well as how it is remembered in the island today. The module includes a discussion of the history of Japanese colonialism in Taiwan and how memories of colonialism shape Taiwanese identity.
Intended Audience:
9-12
Offered in conjunction with the Asian Studies Center’s Summer Institute for East Asian Studies on "Media and Mediation in East Asia: Assemblages and Global Flows," this interactive timeline uses the example of China as a case study to explore the history and role of media throughout East Asia's varied past and present.
Intended Audience:
9-12, Post-Secondary
Curriculum ideas to use as a companion to viewing parts or all of Songs from the North, a film essay about North Korea directed by Soon-Mi Yoo.
Intended Audience:
9-12, Post-Secondary
Curriculum ideas to use as compantion to screening parts or all of The Missing Picture, by Cambodian-French filmmaker, Rithy Panh. Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his personal memories to revisit and recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed in the 1970s.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This curriculum component and interview is part of the Summer Screenshots series and accompanied the screening of the film Journey from the Fall, which tells the story of one Vietnamese family's struggle in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Intended Audience:
K-12
This curriculum component is part of the Summer Screenshots Series and was accompanied by the film, The Missing Picture, an autobiographical reflection of the director Rithy Panh's harrowing struggle and survival under the brutal reign of the Khmer Rouge in 1970s Cambodia.
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