A new and valuable synthesis of the issues affecting the social studies curriculum.
The newly revised edition of The Social Studies Curriculum presents the definitive overview of the primary issues facing teachers creating learning experiences for students in social studies. The book connects the diverse elements of the social studies curriculum--global education, social issues-centered education, and the roles of history, and the arts and sciences--thereby offering a unique and contemporary perspective, one that separates it from other texts used in today's social studies classrooms. Thoroughly updated, this edition includes new material on the use of literature in social studies classrooms, inclusive education, citizenship education, and the impact of standards and high stakes testing on social studies curriculum and pedagogy.
"E. Wayne Ross has assembled an impressive collection of scholars, scholar-activists, and teacher educators to rethink the purposes, problems, and possibilities of the social studies curriculum. This reevaluation is especially needed in light of escalating sociopolitical trends that are affecting teaching and learning in K-12 classrooms--trends such as curriculum standardization, standardized testing, rampaging racism and classicism, as well as recurring sexism and other forms of oppression. As a social educator I am committed to preparing social studies teachers who think of themselves as competent curriculum developers and caring instructors in pursuit of an excellent and equitable education for all of their students. The revised edition of The Social Studies Curriculum serves to reaffirm this commitment for me." -- Ceola Ross Baber, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Contributors include Jane Bernard-Powers, Terrie Epstein, Ronald Evans, Stephen C. Fleury, Rich Gibson, David Hursh, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Sandra Mathison, Merry Merryfield, Jack L. Nelson, Nel Noddings, Susan E. Noffke, Valerie Ooka Pang, Michael Peterson, Binaya Subedi, Kevin D. Vinson, and Michael Whelan.
E. Wayne Ross is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the coeditor of Teacher Personal Theorizing: Connecting Curriculum Practice, Theory, and Research (also published by SUNY Press), and of Democratic Social Education: Social Studies for Social Change
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Revised Edition
Social Studies Teachers and Curriculum E.Wayne Ross
Part I: Purposes of the Social Studies Curriculum
1. The Struggle for the Social Studies Curriculum E.Wayne Ross
2. Why the Study of History Should Be the Core of Social Studies Education Michael Whelan
3.Oppression, Anti-Oppression, and Citizenship Education Kevin D. Vinson
Part II: Social Issues and the Social Studies Curriculum
4. Defining the Social Studies Curriculum: The Influence of and Resistance to Curriculum Standards and Testing in Social Studies Sandra Mathison, E.Wayne Ross, and Kevin D. Vinson
5. Whole Schooling: Implementing Progressive School Reform Rich Gibson and J. Michael Peterson
6. Multicultural Social Studies: Schools as Places for Examining and Challenging Inequality David W. Hursh
7. Racism, Prejudice, and the Social Studies Curriculum Jack L. Nelson and Valerie Ooka Pang
8. Social Studies and Feminism Nel Noddings
9. Gender in the Social Studies Curriculum Jane Bernard-Powers
Part III: The Social Studies Curriculum in Practice
10. Crafting a Culturally Relevant Social Studies Approach Gloria Ladson-Billings
11. Assessment in Social Studies: Moving Toward Authenticity Sandra Mathison
12. Social Studies and the Arts Terrie Epstein
13. Reclaiming Science for Social Knowledge Stephen C. Fleury
14. Decolonizing the Mind for World-Centered Global Education Merry M. Merryfield and Binaya Subedi
15. Teaching Social Issues: Implementing an Issues-Centered Curriculum Ronald W. Evans
Part IV: Conclusion
16. Remaking the Social Studies Curriculum E.Wayne Ross
