
Social Studies for a Better World
An Anti-Oppressive Approach for Elementary Educators
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 14. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-324-01677-9 (ISBN)
Description
In the wake of 2020, we need today's young learners to be prepared to develop solutions to a host of entrenched and complex issues, including systemic racism, massive environmental problems, deep political divisions, and future pandemics that will severely test the effectiveness and equity of our health policies. What better place to start that preparation than with a social studies curriculum that enables elementary students to envision and build a better world?
In this engaging guide two experienced social studies educators unpack the oppressions that so often characterise the elementary curriculum-normalisation, idealisation, heroification and dramatisation-and show how common pitfalls can be replaced with creative solutions. Whether you're a classroom teacher, methods student or curriculum coordinator, this is a book that can transform your understanding of the social studies disciplines and their power to disrupt the narratives that maintain current inequities.
In this engaging guide two experienced social studies educators unpack the oppressions that so often characterise the elementary curriculum-normalisation, idealisation, heroification and dramatisation-and show how common pitfalls can be replaced with creative solutions. Whether you're a classroom teacher, methods student or curriculum coordinator, this is a book that can transform your understanding of the social studies disciplines and their power to disrupt the narratives that maintain current inequities.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
414 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-324-01677-9 (9781324016779)
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Persons
Noreen Naseem Rodriguez (University of Colorado-Boulder) is a teacher educator and researcher of social studies education. She lives in Erie, Colorado. Katy Swalwell is Lead Equity Specialist for the Equity Literacy Institute and founder of Past Present Future Media & Consulting. A former classroom teacher and tenured university professor, she explores how social studies education can help people of all ages become better at identifying and disrupting oppression. In addition to publishing research in peer-reviewed journals, practitioner magazines, and other academic books, she has created the Amazing Iowa children's book series (amazingiowa.com) and co-hosts an irreverent history podcast called Our Dirty Laundry, which examines white women's complicity in white supremacy.