Overview
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 curriculum—from history to cultural studies to contemporary social issues—the 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.
Full Product Details
Author: E. Wayne Ross
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781438499024
ISBN 10: 1438499027
Pages: 430
Publication Date: 01 September 2024
Audience:
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
""The Social Studies Curriculum is a classic. It is a must-read for researchers and practitioners in the field of social studies as well as those wanting to learn more about the latest trends and challenges in the field. In this fifth edition, Ross again brings keen insight to the pressing issues of social education, with a call to enact mindful teaching and an inclusive curriculum for social justice. Collectively, the chapters call for a 'dangerous citizenship' and give direction to those looking for a road map on how to make ‘good trouble’ through curriculum design and teaching."" — Christine Woyshner, author of The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 ""Speaking across disciplines and perspectives, this volume is truly polyvocal in its construction, its implementation, and the readers it invites to read and respond to this important work."" — Boni Wozolek, editor of Black Lives Matter in US Schools: Race, Education, and Resistance ""This latest edition offers a timely portrayal of teaching and learning in social studies, especially in the aftermath of 2020–2021. These chapters trace how educators and scholars have responded to the world-altering events of COVID-19, Black Lives Matter and global protests arising from the death of George Floyd, Trumpism as political ideology and its attack on the legitimacy of facts, the unearthing of the remains of nearly a thousand Indigenous children from a Canadian reservation school in Saskatchewan, economic recession, and climate change. We are living in turbulent times indeed! E. Wayne Ross masterfully brings together both established and new voices to address them."" — Antonio J. Castro, coeditor of Teaching for Citizenship in Urban Schools Praise for the Fourth Edition ""…an indispensable resource for those readers interested in social studies, history, and civic education … There are many gems here for teachers and researchers alike … Highly recommended."" — CHOICE
"""The Social Studies Curriculum is a classic. It is a must-read for researchers and practitioners in the field of social studies as well as those wanting to learn more about the latest trends and challenges in the field. In this fifth edition, Ross again brings keen insight to the pressing issues of social education, with a call to enact mindful teaching and an inclusive curriculum for social justice. Collectively, the chapters call for a 'dangerous citizenship' and give direction to those looking for a road map on how to make ‘good trouble’ through curriculum design and teaching."" — Christine Woyshner, author of The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 ""Speaking across disciplines and perspectives, this volume is truly polyvocal in its construction, its implementation, and the readers it invites to read and respond to this important work."" — Boni Wozolek, editor of Black Lives Matter in US Schools: Race, Education, and Resistance ""This latest edition offers a timely portrayal of teaching and learning in social studies, especially in the aftermath of 2020–2021. These chapters trace how educators and scholars have responded to the world-altering events of COVID-19, Black Lives Matter and global protests arising from the death of George Floyd, Trumpism as political ideology and its attack on the legitimacy of facts, the unearthing of the remains of nearly a thousand Indigenous children from a Canadian reservation school in Saskatchewan, economic recession, and climate change. We are living in turbulent times indeed! E. Wayne Ross masterfully brings together both established and new voices to address them."" — Antonio J. Castro, coeditor of Teaching for Citizenship in Urban Schools Praise for the Fourth Edition ""…an indispensable resource for those readers interested in social studies, history, and civic education … There are many gems here for teachers and researchers alike … Highly recommended."" — CHOICE"
Author Information
E. Wayne Ross is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia. He is the coeditor (with Jeffrey Cornett and Gail McCutcheon) of Teacher Personal Theorizing: Connecting Curriculum Practice, Theory, and Research (also published by SUNY Press), and the author of Rethinking Social Studies: Critical Pedagogy in Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship, among other books.
