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Oct 14, 2008 · Schoolteacher Ron Jones's personal account of his experiment which created a proto-fascist movement amongst his high school pupils in Palo Alto, California, which in 2008 was subject of the award-winning film The Wave.
The Third Wave was an experimental movement created by the high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could have accepted the actions of the Nazi regime during the rise of the Third Reich and the Second World War.
Oct 21, 2023 · The Third Wave experiment has been called evidence that we are all evil at heart. How did one school descend into fascism after only a few days?
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Mar 17, 2017 · The Third Wave began as an experiment in the classroom of first-year history teacher Ron Jones to simulate fascism in World War II and demonstrate to skeptical students how the Nazi Party...
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May 14, 2022 · May 14, 2022 Lauren Coontz. Ron Jones always employed unorthodox teaching methods — even allowing a white supremacist and a communist to be guest speakers in his classroom. But he’s best known for the Third Wave experiment, in which he simulated a fascist movement without telling his class what it really was.
Ron Jones (born 1941) is an American writer and formerly a teacher in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his classroom exercise called "The Third Wave" and the book he wrote about the event, which inspired the made-for-TV movie The Wave and other works, including a theatrical film in 2008. The original TV movie won the Emmy and Peabody ...
The first section gives a brief overview of Ron Jones, his school experiment and its historical background (Vietnam War and racial issues). The second section presents the writer Todd Strasser, his novel The Wave and its historical background (Cold War and school shootings in the USA).
