Robert M. Lucas

Realizing the Public Value of Learning
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People Need To Know

Confronting History in the Heartland

People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community’s history – a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century’s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create a collection of online resources about the lynching.

As they encounter troubling information and consider how best to present it to others, the students come to better understand the complex ethical ramifications of historical work and to more fully appreciate why their learning matters. Through the stories of these students, their teacher, and an author re-immersed in the town of his own childhood, the book develops an approach to curriculum in which students create products of value beyond the school walls.

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Realizing The Public Value of Learning

I am currently an assistant professor in the College of Education at East Carolina University.
In 2013, I received a Ph.D. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education in Curriculum & Teacher Education and in Learning Sciences & Technology Design.

Believing that the goal of learning is to do valuable work in the world, I study activities in which people learn by creating products of public value. Thus, my work combines curriculum theory, educational technology, and teacher learning, especially in history and social studies education.

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