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Lessons from Ground Zero: A Hiroshima Nagasaki Story
How do people turn fear and distrust into peace and friendship? This story of international middle school students living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan where they create the Birds of Peace Project is a story of hope, encouragement and practical examples of the positive difference every individual can make.
244 pages, Paperback
First published August 20, 2002
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July 24, 2023
Full of beauty and truth, but flawed (just like people)
Enloe tells a semi-autobiography in third person, mostly focusing on his former students (including his son) at Hiroshima International School and their struggles to understand the impact and implications of nuclear warfare. I feel that this would be a good book to study with a group of students, but maybe in selections since it has a tendency to be repetitive. It handles the concepts of life and death, peace and war just like you would expect from something in an 8th grade classroom. It’s an easy read that never gets very boring, and I did learn a lot about Hiroshima, and to a lesser extent, Nagasaki.
Enloe tells a semi-autobiography in third person, mostly focusing on his former students (including his son) at Hiroshima International School and their struggles to understand the impact and implications of nuclear warfare. I feel that this would be a good book to study with a group of students, but maybe in selections since it has a tendency to be repetitive. It handles the concepts of life and death, peace and war just like you would expect from something in an 8th grade classroom. It’s an easy read that never gets very boring, and I did learn a lot about Hiroshima, and to a lesser extent, Nagasaki.
December 1, 2008
An inspiring constructivist approach to peace education!
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