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HURRICANE KATRINA
HEA 312-01
111/18/2018
ANGELA AROCHA
Hurricane Katrina
ABSTRACT
This article is a pedagogical case study reflecting on the Teaching the Levees curriculum (Crocco, 2007), written in the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina
and in tandem with the Spike Lee film, When the Levees Broke (2006). Over 30,000 copies of the curriculum, underwritten by the Rockefeller Foundation, were distributed widely throughout and beyond the
United States. In a review of the curriculum, the writer praised it but felt that it had not done enough to express “moral outrage” (Kavanagh, 2009) about the situation of individuals caught in New Orleans as a result of the levees breaching and the city flooding. This review prompted this article, which uses several works of Nel Noddings, including her book (with Laurie Brooks) on Teaching Controversial Issues (2017), to take up the question of whether and how moral outrage regarding this event should shape approaches to teaching about Hurricane
Katrina
or other natural disasters in social studies classrooms.
Analysis
People always relate the hurricane to a catastrophe because of the impact that so many of them have caused, often punctual and that almost always leaves the notoriety of a name or a place name associated with the event of sad remembrance. This article is not about the hurricane itself, but it addresses the act of taking advantage of the commotion after the passage of
the phenomenon to delve into the behavior of certain institutions and individuals, to exploit the resulting discourses alluded to in the outbreak of documentary information that leaves behind the drama of a catastrophe based on some examples. When among several specialists from different disciplines returns the opportunity to analyze and dissect myths and realities of one of the faces of the disaster the hurricane as an entity that can be approached from more than one edge, mythology and Philosophy, or confrontation of the phenomena and natural or scientific concepts and the supernatural ones trying to explain the same phenomenon. One part of the analysis that cannot be missed is the use of fear and collective panic since fear is socially constructed.
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Reference
Crocco, M. S. croccom@msu. ed. (2018). Moral Outrage and Teaching about
Hurricane Katrina. Theory Into Practice, 57(4), 270–280. https://doi-
org.libproxy.csudh.edu/10.1080/00405841.2018.1518641