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This updated third edition contains new chapters on important issues—including race, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism—affecting social studies education.
The third edition of The Social Studies Curriculum thoroughly updates the definitive overview of the primary issues teachers face when creating learning experiences for students in social studies. By connecting the diverse elements of the social studies curriculum—history education, civic, global, and social issues—the book offers a unique and critical perspective that separates it from other texts in the field. This edition includes new work on race, gender, sexuality, critical multiculturalism, visual culture, moral deliberation, digital technologies, teaching democracy, and the future of social studies education. In an era marked by efforts to standardize curriculum and teaching, this book challenges the status quo by arguing that social studies curriculum and teaching should be about uncovering elements that are taken for granted in our everyday experiences, and making them the target of inquiry.
“The Social Studies Curriculum demystifies the process of social studies curriculum construction. This helps empower pre-service and beginning teachers to become curriculum designers rather than just curriculum consumers. The authors avoid educational jargon and a great strength of the book is its accessibility to readers. I look forward to using this new edition with my social studies education classes.” — Alan J. Singer, author of Social Studies for Secondary Schools: Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach, Second Edition
“This book is a valuable resource for understanding the theoretical and practical dimensions of the most important issues in social studies education today. The authors provide a wide range of critical perspectives and represent some of the best new scholarship in the field. The book is also an important source for social studies educators and teachers confronted with the challenges posed by the current standards-based education reform.” — William B. Stanley, editor of Critical Issues in Social Studies Research for the Twenty-first Century
Contributors include Margaret Smith Crocco, Linda Farr-Darling, Kristi Fragnoli, Kevin Jennings, Joseph Kahne, Curry Malott, Perry Marker, Sandra Mathison, Merry M. Merryfield, Jack Nelson, Valerie Pang, Mark Pruyn, Frances Rains, E. Wayne Ross, Binaya Subedi, Brenda Trofanenko, Kevin D. Vinson, Walter Werner, Joel Westheimer, and Michael Whelan.
E. Wayne Ross is Professor of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has written and edited many books, including (with Jeffrey W. Cornett and Gail McCutcheon) Teacher Personal Theorizing: Connecting Curriculum Practice, Theory, and Research, also published by SUNY Press.
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