University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs Education ETDs 6-25-2010 The ndurE ing Communities Project of Japanese American Experiences in New Mexico during World War II and Beyond: A Teachers Journey in Creating Meaningful Curriculum for the Secondary Social Studies Classroom Diane Ball Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_llss_etds Recommended Citation Ball, Diane. "The ndurE ing Communities Project of Japanese American Experiences in New Mexico during World War II and Beyond: A Teachers Journey in Creating Meaningful Curriculum for the Secondary Social Studies Classroom." (2010). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_llss_etds/4 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Education ETDs at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Enduring Communities Project of Japanese American Experiences in New Mexico during World War II and Beyond: A Teacher’s Journey in Creating Meaningful Curriculum for the Secondary Social Studies Classroom BY Diane Leslie Ball B.A., History and Russian Studies, The University of New Mexico, 1984 M.A., Secondary Education, The University of New Mexico, 2002 DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico May 2010 DEDICATION To Mom, for the gift of history To Allyson, for the opportunity To Lyn, for the journey iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In any endeavor of this size, the journey to create the dissertation was certainly not a singular act.