American Institute for History Education

1. American Institute for History Education Lesson Planning and Binary Paideia

2. The Binary Paideia Approach • Understanding Paideia will provide students with consistent content structure. • This approach can be used when studying any time, people, or culture.

3. What is a Paideia? • What is a Paideia? • …A Paideia is everything that • makes that regime what it is. • …In other words, what is the regime like? • …Who’s in charge and why? • …How do people define themselves? • …What are the settled things?

4. For example • Stories and myths that define a people… • What are the children taught? • the Iliad, the Aeneid, the Torah, the Bible, the Koran, the Declaration of Independence, the Communist Manifesto

5. Our Paideia • How would you describe the US? • Who’s in charge and why? • What do we teach our children about ourselves?

6. More on Paideia • Paideia also examines a society’s highest moral excellence or virtue. • Looking at US History, what men and women exemplified our highest moral excellence or virtue? • Why?

7. Paideia examines segments of society • Politeia Regime– • The type of structure:   How do they rule themselves? • Athenian Assembly, the US Constitution/ Republic, Britain ’s Constitutional Monarchy, etc

8. Segments of society, con’t • Politeuma • Ruling order--Those who have power: • The first & second estates in ancien regime France    • The Communist Party in the USSR    • The Citizens of the United States

9. Western Civilization The students will learn that the US Paideia is in line with a series of Paideias, starting with the ancient Greeks. Students will eventually see differences in the Paideias.

10. Binary Paideia • Students will contrast a Paideia from one time period with a Paideia from another time period. • Students will eventually identify contrasting Paideias within one nation • e.g. the North vs. the South in 1860.

11. More on Binary Paideia • Enables students to discover the essence or nature of various cultures, and articulate what makes a particular society what it is. • Students will contrast four essential aspects of each society.

12. 1. Politeia • The society’s regime, the structure of their government. • For example… • Athenian Assembly, the US Constitution Republic, Britain ’s Constitutional Monarchy, etc

13. 2. Politeuma • Ruling order--Those who have power: • For example… • The Communist Party in the USSR    • The Citizens of the United States

14. 3. Paideia • What makes a city what it is • Things the Politeia teaches its children… • Iliad, Aeneid, Bible, Koran, The Declaration of Independence, Communist Manifesto •  * Offices and honors are conferred on certain individuals •  * A certain set of morals & manners of those who make it to the top.

15. 4. Virtue • The highest moral excellence of a society. • Roman Virtues Heroic Martial Valor Christian Virtues Holiness • Bourgeois Virtues Liberty • Revolutionary Virtues Equality

16. For example: Hellenic Greece Politeia Regime: The Assembly Politeuma Ruling order: Citizens Paideia What makes a city what it is: Iliad & Odyssey Virtue The highest moral excellence: Participation in the Polis- Logos Contrasts: Spartans/ Athenians  Greeks/Persians

17. The Lesson Plan Template • Let’s look at the lesson plan template: • Title, Grade, Subject, Objectives, • Binary Paideia chart, key terms, background, procedures/activities, • Homework, assessments, extension, resources