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This fully updated and revised edition includes fourteen new chapters on contemporary topics such as critical race theory, decolonizing the curriculum, economics education, and children's rights.
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.
"With the fifth edition of The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities (TSSC), editor E. Wayne Ross and the book's contributors deliver a vital, timely addition to the influential TSSC series. Across 17 chapters—14 of which are new to this edition—the boundaries of the social studies curriculum are relentlessly complicated and contested, and the book's authors offer critical, compelling visions for how social studies teaching and learning can attend to a range of contemporary issues and topics." — Theory & Research in Social Education
"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
Preface
Introduction: Curriculum Ideologies, Social Studies Traditions, and the Teacher-Curriculum Encounter
E. Wayne Ross
Part 1: Purposes of the Social Studies Curriculum
1. It Is All Indoctrination: Power and the Impossibility of Apolitical Social Studies Curriculum
Wayne Au
2. A Curricular Reading of Historical Perspective, Agency, and Viral Futures in Social Education
Kent den Heyer
3. A Critical Media Literacy Analysis of Social Studies Education
Emil Marmol
Part II: Social Issues and the Social Studies Curriculum
4. Beyond the Nation-State: A Foundational and Black Diasporic Examination of the Politics of Black Educational Curriculum
Christopher L. Busey and Tianna I. Dowie-Chin
5. The Politics of Black History in the United States: Black History Mandates and Anti–Critical Race Theory Laws
LaGarrett J. King, Brianne Pitts, and Daniel Tulino
6. Does Social Studies Want to Be Anti-Racist? Thoughts on Decentering Whiteness in Curriculum
Andrea M. Hawkman
7. Social Studies as a Site for Building Decolonial Literacy
Shannon Leddy (Métis)
8. Settler Social Studies: On Disappointment and Hope for the Future
Sarah B. Shear and Leilani Sabzalian (Alutiiq)
9. A Queer Agenda for Gender<>Sexuality and Social Education
Sandra J. Schmidt
10. Responding to Islamophobia in the Classroom
Özlem Sensoy
Part III: The Social Studies Curriculum in Practice
11. Critical Historical Inquiry: Disrupting the Dominant Narrative
Cinthia S. Salinas and Brooke Blevins
12. Studying Evil in Social Studies
Cathryn van Kessel
13. Does She Even Go Here? Economics and Its Place in Social Studies Education
Erin C. Adams
14. An Eco-Anarchic Social Studies: Teaching for Children's Rights and Earth Democracy
Brandon Edwards-Schuth and John Lupinacci
15. Teaching for Critically Engaged Denizenship: Lessons From Morocco on Teaching for an Empowered Other Civic Status
Jennice McCafferty-Wright
16. Pedagogical Imaginaries for Dangerous Citizenship
E. Wayne Ross
Part IV: Afterword
17. What Is the Future of Social Studies Curriculum?
E. Wayne Ross
List of Contributors
Index