The Social Studies Curriculum, Fifth Edition
Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities
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The Social Studies Curriculum, Fifth Edition
Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities
About This Book
The Social Studies Curriculum, Fifth Edition updates the definitive overview of the issues teachers face when creating learning experiences for students in social studies. Renowned for connecting diverse elements of the social studies curriculumâfrom history to cultural studies to contemporary social issuesâthe book offers a unique and critical perspective that continues to separate it from other texts. The social studies curriculum is contested terrain both epistemologically and politically. Completely updated and revised, the fifth edition includes fourteen new chapters and covers the politics of the social studies curriculum, questions of historical perspective, Black education and critical race theory, whiteness and anti-racism, decolonial literacy and decolonizing the curriculum, gender and sexuality, Islamophobia, critical media literacy, evil in social studies, economics education, anarchism, children's rights and Earth democracy, and citizenship education. Readers are encouraged to reconsider their assumptions and understandings of the purposes, nature, and possibilities of the social studies curriculum.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Curriculum Ideologies, Social Studies Traditions, and the Teacher-Curriculum Encounter
- Part I: Purposes of the Social Studies Curriculum
- Part II: Social Issues and the Social Studies Curriculum
- Part III: The Social Studies Curriculum in Practice
- Part IV: Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover