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Should Studying History Include the Bad as well as the Good?
Studying history raises many questions that often provoke highly emotional responses. Additionally, traditional historical teaching often involves the retelling of myths and/or inaccuracies. Should teaching about history include correcting those myths? Should history teaching include the more embarrassing moments?
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Mike Streich has been a history teacher on the high school and college level for over twenty years specializing in European and American history. He is a member of the North Carolina Association of Historians and the Southeast Regional Middle East Islamic Studies Seminar. Streich had led over two dozen student and adult tours throughout Europe, Russia, and the South Pacific and has attended numerous foreign educator conferences dealing with student foreign travel. He was a keynote speaker at an EF Tours Paris Orientation Convention in February 2001 and has been published in SYTA and Teach and Travel magazine. Streich has designed both foreign and domestic tours and written academic papers on student foreign travel. In the early 90s, Streich edited The International Teacher, a newsletter highlighting global education and lesson plan ideas. He has written for The Catholic News and Record and was the 2005 Teacher of the Year. He has also been published in the Raleigh News & Observer and the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung & German Times.
Streich earned an MA in History from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro were he also taught as an adjunct for several years. His first degree was in Biblical Literature and he studied Business and Law. He currently resides in South Carolina and divides his time between the US and Europe.
Currently, Streich still teaches university history courses and is planning a July 2010 tour of the South Pacific for those interested in exploring history, ecology, and aboriginal culture in New Zealand and Australia. The tour is not affiliated with any educational institution.