Citizens as Agents of Moral Change
Learning Objective: The impact and influences of values: A Case Study
Please note:
This week’s assignment is a case study about people who were agents of moral change. For either of this week’s assignment options, students are instructed to engage in their own research. One or more primer articles have been provided to start your research. However, students are to include a minimum of two unique, external articles which pertain to their study subject. Students may use Wikipedia as a reference for this assignment.
Specifically, for either of these assignments, students are to use and cite two external documents, at least one Primer (or provided article), the article by Oldenquist, or Kluger, or Tomasellos, and an assigned reading article from a previous week. If you have questions, please ask.
Option One:
Subject to the note above, research the life and accomplishments of one of the following moral agents of change: Malala Yousaf Zai, Standing Bear, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mitsuye Endo, Hannah Arendt, or Cesar Chavez. For this assignment, examine the life and actions of one of these individuals and then answer the following questions:
What value(s) did your research subject demonstrate?
How did this value help them become a moral agent of change?
What can we learn from this model citizen?
How can we use our choices and behaviors to set positive examples for others?
How might ordinary citizens become extraordinary moral agents of change?
*The purpose of the KSS course is to demonstrate the importance of engaged citizenship. This week student’s explore a lesser known individual that affected positive change in American society. This assignment helps us understand that ordinary people, someome like you, can accomplish extraordinary things. As we learned last week, change can be good or bad. But one thing for certain, technology and globalism will continue to effect and change society. And, as we learned from Putnam, some will openly embrace these changes but many will withdraw and feel a sense of anxiety due to these changes. This is a predictable human response to rapid change.
For this assignment, I will be looking for students to connect specific behaviors or deeds by the individual they chose to research and specific values discussed in the assigned reading articles. Why? To recognize the effect that values have on behavior and how, if we each choose wisely, we can participate in a positive way in molding a good society.
*Students are expected to read all of the assigned reading articles as the basis for their persuasive essay in the Primary Assignment. Each week’s Primary Assignment requires that students follow the 2+1 Rule. In order to demonstrate learning, students want to use and cite two assigned reading articles from the current week and an additional assigned reading article from a previous week to support their persuasive argument in the Primary Assignment. While an assigned video may be used and cited in the Primary Assignment, unless clearly stated, videos are supplemental citations and do not fulfill the 2+1 Rule requirements.
Choose two articles from the present week:
On the Nature of Citizenship, Andrew Oldenquist, Educational Leadership
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What Makes Us Moral, Jeffrey Kluger, Tiffany Sharples, Alexandra Silver, Time Magazine, 2007
https://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1685055_1685076_1686619,00.html
How We Learned to Put our Fate in One Another’s Hands, Michael Tomasello, Scientific American, 2018
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Choose one article from last week:
Globalization is Good for You, Ronald Bailey, Reason, 2015
Tracing the Impact of Globalisation on a Restaurant Menu Card, Arundhathi Baburaj, Women’s Era, 2018
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Nationalism Gains Momentum, Trend Magazine, 2018
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Seven Myths That Cloud Immigration Debate, Darrell M. West, Brookings Institution
Key findings about U.S. immigrants, ABBY BUDIMAN, Pew Research Center, 2020
Immigration by the Numbers, Elaine Kamarck, John Hudak, Christine Stenglein, The Brookings Institution, 2017
Optional readings & videos based upon whom you choose to research:
Meet the Hero: Mitsuye Endo, Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes
Ex Parte Endo: A Journey Toward Justice for Japanese Americans, LowellMilkenCtr, 2016
Malala Yousafzai’s Address to the United Nations, CommonLit, 2013
Diary of a Pakistani schoolgirl (v), BBC News, 2009
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior on the Operations of the Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1877, Chief Standing Bear Organization
The Story of Chief Standing Bear, Chief Standing Bear Organization
Statement by Cesar Chavez at the End of His 24-Day Fast for Justice, California Department of Education
Fight in the Fields (Part 1), UnionSolidarity, 2011
Eichmann in Jerusalem-I, Hannah Arendt, The New Yorker, 1963
Hannah Arendt Final Speech, Jelle A. TERPSTRA, 2014
History Brief: WEB DuBois, Reading Through History, YouTube, 2020
NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom, Library of Congress
W.E.B DuBois, “Returning Soldiers” (May, 1919), The American Yawp Reader
Minimum 600 to 700 words
an APA style bibliography,
use of APA style in-line citations, and
adherence to the 2+1 Rule.
