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Rethinking Social Studies - Critical Pedagogy in Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Social Studies - Critical Pedagogy in Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society
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Like the schools in which it is taught, social studies is full of
alluring contradictions. It harbors possibilities for inquiry and
social criticism, liberation and emancipation. Social studies could
be a site that enables young people to analyze and understand
social issues in a holistic way - finding and tracing relations and
interconnections both present and past in an effort to build
meaningful understandings of a problem, its context and history; to
envision a future where specific social problems are resolved; and
take action to bring that vision in to existence. Social studies
could be a place where students learn to speak for themselves in
order to achieve, or at least strive toward an equal degree of
participation and better future. Social studies could be like this,
but it is not. Rethinking Social Studies examines why social
studies has been and continues to be profoundly conversing in
nature, the engine room of illusion factories whose primary aim is
reproduction of the existing social order, where the ruling ideas
exist to be memorized, regurgitated, internalized and lived by.
Rethinking social studies as a site where students can develop
personally meaningful understandings of the world and recognize
they have agency to act on the world, and make change, rests on the
premises that social studies should not show life to students, but
bringing them to life and that the aim of social studies is getting
students to speak for themselves, to understand people make their
own history even if they make it in already existing circumstances.
These principles are the foundation for a new social studies, one
that is not driven by standardized curriculum or examinations, but
by the perceived needs, interests, desires of students, communities
of shared interest, and ourselves as educators. Rethinking Social
Studies challenges readers to reconsider conventional thought and
practices that sustain the status quo in classrooms, schools, and
society by critically engaging with questions and issues such as:
neutrality in the classroom; how movement conservatism shapes the
social studies curriculum; how corporate?driven education affects
schools, teachers, and curriculum; ways in which teachers can
creatively disrupt everyday life in the social studies classroom;
going beyond language and inclusive content in social justice
oriented teaching; making critical pedagogy relevant to everyday
life and classroom practice; the invisibility of class in the
social studies curriculum and how to make it a central organizing
concept; class war, class consciousness and social studies in the
age of empire; what are your ideals as a social studies education
and how do you keep them and still teach?; and what it means to be
a critical social studies educator beyond the classroom.
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