NYCoRE is proud to present:
Camouflaged: Investigating How the U.S. Military Affects You and Your Community
A curriculum created by New York City teachers led by NYCoRE
Edited by Edwin Mayorga, Bree Picower, & Seth Rader of NYCoRE
Foreword by Bill Bigelow
Camouflaged: Investigating How the U.S. Military Affects You and Your Community is a tool for educators to help middle and high school-aged students explore the role of the military in their lives and in their communities. Local New York City teachers, led by the New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE), generated the Camouflaged curriculum with the intent of making it accessible to educators across the country in a variety of settings and curricular areas. NYCoRE believes that it is the role of educators as allies to young people to ensure that students have information from a variety of sources before considering enlisting in the armed forces. At this point in U.S. history, military recruiters have unprecedented access to young people in and out of school through a variety of mediums. This curriculum provides a critical lens to help students navigate recruiters’ messages and to examine the role of the military throughout this country’s history to the present.
To inquire about MILITARY MYTHS, the film that inspired Camouflaged visit:
Paper Tiger Television at http://www.papertiger.org
"This dynamic publication has all the content, concepts, lesson plans, and resources that teachers need to convey to students the ways that militarization and current wars affect them, their families, and their communities. It is a powerful and extremely useful document. Appropriate for public school, college, and graduate level teaching."
- Jean Anyon, author of Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement.
"Camouflaged is a key source for helping youth explore the social, economic and political realities of military life. Through this curriculum, young people will hone their 4 Rs - reading, writing, arithmetic and reflective thinking. Camouflaged is creative and obviously compiled by educators who understand young people, what and how they think, and accordingly, what will engage them."
-Susan Wilcox, Ed.D., Co-Executive Director, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
"Brilliant, highly charged materials on the high costs citizens in a democratic nation pay, and the damage the society incurs, when an uncontrolled military sector drains the nation's economic resources, propagandizes a population to justify its own often illegal and immoral actions, and recruits the children of the poor as cannon fodder for its future wars. A superb curricular package that is more badly needed now than ever. "- Jonathan Kozol
"This is by far the most comprehensive guide that I've seen. You can use this guide in sequence or use parts of it. Our students are viewed as “Fresh Meat” by recruiters. We teachers may be the only deterrents to this illegal war-time hustle happening in many of our young people's lives. Get This Book!"
- Jim Murphy: NYC teacher, veterans' activist (Vietnam veteran) and counter-recruiter (NY Vets Speak Out).
"Camouflaged is an amazing curriculum with unparalleled relevance. I used it as the driving curriculum in my social issues course for seniors, and student involvement, engagement and enthusiasm was at an all time high. What’s more, none of the kids who took my class enlisted after graduation, they went on to college, and those who wanted to make the military a career put it off for a degree first! If it were up to me I would make it a mandatory class for every high schooler."
-Caridad Caro, NYC Public High School Administrator, U.A. School for Wildlife Conservation
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To inquire about MILITARY MYTHS, the film that inspired Camouflaged visit:
Paper Tiger Television at http://www.papertiger.org
Talkin' bout Teaching about the Military
Read the discussion from the Education for Liberation Network's "Talkin 'bout Teaching about the Military"
In February NYCoRE participated in EdLiberations's on-line national panel to disucss the impact of military on youth and celebrated the upcoming release of NYCoRE's new publication Camouflaged: Investigating how the military affects you and your community. (learn more)
