Acknowledgments
Introduction:
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. Teaching History: A Constructivist Approach
Michael Whelan
3. Oppression, Anti-Oppression, and Citizenship Education
Kevin D. Vinson
4. The Future is Now: Social Studies in the World of 2056
Perry M. Marker
Part II. Social Issues and the Social Studies Curriculum
5. Defining the Social Studies Curriculum: Influence of and Resistance to Curriculum Standards and Testing in Social Studies
Sandra Mathison,
E. Wayne Ross, and
Kevin D. Vinson
6. Racism, Prejudice, and the Social Studies Curriculum
Jack L. Nelson and Valerie Ooka Pang
7. The Color of Social Studies: A Post-Social Studies Reality Check
Frances V. Rains
8. Marxism and Critical Multicultural Social Studies
Curry Malott and Marc Pruyn
9. Gender and Social Education: What’s the Problem?
Margaret Smith Crocco
Part III. The Social Studies Curriculum in Practice
10. Struggling for Good Assessment in Social Studies Education
Sandra Mathison and Kristi Fragnoli
11. Reading Pictures of People
Walter Werner
12. “A World of Knowledge”: Social Education and Digital Technology
Brenda Trofanenko
13. “Out” in the Classroom: Addressing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGTB) Issues in Social Studies Curriculum
Kevin Jennings
14. Teaching Social Studies as if it Mattered: Young Children and Moral Deliberation
Linda Farr Darling
15. Decolonizing the Mind for World-Centered Global Education
Merry M. Merryfield and Binaya Subedi
16. Teaching Democracy: What Schools Need to Do
Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer
Part IV. Conclusion
17. Remaking the Social Studies Curriculum
E. Wayne Ross
List of Contributors
Index