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(Re)Imagining Elementary Social Studies: A Controversial Issues Reader
Contributor(s): Shear, Sarah B. (Editor), Tschida, Christina M. (Editor), Bellows, Elizabeth (Editor)

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ISBN: 1641130733     ISBN-13: 9781641130738
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
OUR PRICE: $72.81  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science
- Education | Research
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.24 lbs) 402 pages
 
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The field of elementary social studies is a specific space that has historically been granted unequal value in the larger arena of social studies education and research. This reader stands out as a collection of approaches aimed specifically at teaching controversial issues in elementary social studies. This reader challenges social studies education (i.e., classrooms, teacher education programs, and research) to engage controversial issues--those topics that are politically, religiously, or are otherwise ideologically charged and make people, especially teachers, uncomfortable--in profound ways at the elementary level. This reader, meant for elementary educators, preservice teachers, and social studies teacher educators, offers an innovative vision from a new generation of social studies teacher educators and researchers fighting against the forces of neoliberalism and the marginalization of our field.

The reader is organized into three sections: 1) pushing the boundaries of how the field talks about elementary social studies, 2) elementary social studies teacher education, and 3) elementary social studies teaching and learning. Individual chapters either A) conceptually unpack a specific controversial issue (e.g. Islamophobia, Indian Boarding Schools, LGBT issues in schools) and how that issue should be/is incorporated in an elementary social studies methods courses and classrooms or B) present research on elementary preservice teachers or how elementary teachers and students engage controversial issues. This reader unpacks specific controversial issues for elementary social studies for readers to gain critical content knowledge, teaching tips, lesson ideas, and recommended resources.

Endorsement (Re)Imagining Elementary Social Studies is a timely and powerful collection that offers the best of what social studies education could and should be. Grounded in a politics of social justice, this book should be used in all elementary social studies methods courses and schools in order to develop the kinds of teachers the world needs today.

-- Wayne Au, Professor, University of Washington Bothell, Editor, Rethinking Schools

 
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