Handbook on teaching social issues

"The Handbook on Teaching Social Issues, 2nd edition provides teachers and teacher educators with a comprehensive guide to teaching social issues in the classroom. This second edition frames the teaching of social issues with a strong emphasis on issues of social justice. It raises the potentia...

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Other Authors Evans, Ronald W. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2021]
EditionSecond edition.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806603992
DOI10.1108/978-1-64802-566-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 383 pages) : illustrations, maps

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Table of Contents:
  • An Introduction to teaching social issues / Ronald W. Evans
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Re-framing the teaching of social issues
  • Chapter 1. The struggle for democratic schooling: A brief history of issues-centered education / Ronald W. Evans
  • Chapter 2. How could we solve that problem? Cultivating a healthy democracy through democratic classrooms / Quentin Wheeler-Bell and Katy Swalwell
  • Chapter 3. The subjectivity of openness: Framing social issues in k-12 education / Wayne Journell
  • Chapter 4. Academic freedom and issues-based social education / Jack L. Nelson
  • Part II. Critical social issues in the curriculum
  • Chapter 5. Critical peace theory and the deconstruction of systemic economic inequality / Matt Dingler and Jason L. Endacott
  • Chapter 6. Black gendered lives matter everywhere: An intersectional and global approach to understanding anti-black racism, racial violence, and black resistance / Christopher Busey and Carolyn Silva
  • Chapter 7. Teaching about the controversy of confederate monuments in the south / Jeremiah Clabough, Jim Nunez, and Rebecca Macon Bidwell
  • Chapter 8. Teaching social issues through ethnic studies: Centering race and social activism / Miguel Zavala and Jose Paolo Magcalas
  • Chapter 9. Teaching women's history, gender equity, and cultural norms in the #metoo era / Chara Haeussler Bohan and Sonya Kay Miller
  • Chapter 10. The consequences of whistleblowing and the pedagogy of citizenship / Matthew S. Hollstein and Alan Chu
  • Chapter 11. Bespoke colonialism: Teaching about the u.s. Territories / Thomas Misco
  • Part III. In a disciplinary vein: Social issues in the subject areas
  • Chapter 12. Using ephemera, monuments, and museums to teach controversial social issues / Sarah J. Kaka and Katherine Glenn-Applegate
  • Chapter 13. We are still here: Avoiding erasure and misrepresentation of native people in k-12 classroom instruction / Lindsay Stallones Marshall and Kelsey Dayle John
  • Chapter 14. Engaging white privilege, racial injustice, and systemic oppression in the canon and young adult literature / Ashley S. Boyd
  • Chapter 15. Socio-scientific issues-based instruction: The case of fracking as a controversial environmental issue / Matthew S. Hollstein and Frans H. Doppen
  • Part IV. You do issues and inquiry with kids? Social issues and inquiry learning in elementary schools
  • Chapter 16. Curricular, interactional, and pedagogical spaces for social inquiry with young children / Katherina Payne and Katy Swalwell
  • Chapter 17. Searching for sarah rector: Teacher candidates exploring gender, race, and local history for elementary classrooms / Kristy Brugar
  • Chapter 18. LGBTQ+-themed literature, close reading, and text-based writing in the primary grades / John H. Bickford III and Devanne Lawson
  • Part V. The heavy topics: Human rights, genocide, sustainability
  • Chapter 19. Human rights education and issues-centered social studies / Gloria T. Alter and William R. Fernekes
  • Chapter 20. The violation of human rights during wartime: Teaching about the comfort women of world war ii and their search for justice / Sunghee Shin, Beverly Milner (Lee) Bisland, and Jimin Kim
  • Chapter 21. Genocide education / Samuel Totten
  • Chapter 22. Teaching the social issues of (un)sustainable living / Jay M. Shuttleworth
  • Chapter 23. Who builds the desert? Exploring just sustainability in the arabian gulf through issues-based inquiry / Karen S. Barton
  • Part VI. On why and how: Methods for teaching social issues
  • Chapter 24. Teaching social issues with civic action research: Democracy as a verb in elementary, middle, and high school / Beth C. Rubin
  • Chapter 25. Discussion methods for teaching social issues / Steven Camicia
  • Chapter 26. Essential elements of unit design when exploring public issues with students / Joe Onosko, Michael Kopish, and Lee Swenson
  • Chapter 27. Authentic assessment of social issues instruction: The supreme court as exemplar for pedagogy and performance / Geoffrey Scheurman and David Gerwin
  • Chapter 28. Teaching social issues with english learners / Br̀bara C. Cruz and Stephen J. Thornton
  • Chapter 29. A justice-oriented approach to addressing disability in social studies / Darren Minarik, Rebekah Grooten, and Timothy Lintner
  • Chapter 30. Toward a pedagogy of dialogue for online teaching about social issues / Travis Logan Seay and Elizabeth Yeager Washington
  • Part VII. The latest and the best resources and materials
  • Chapter 31. Resources and materials for teaching social issues / Elizabeth Osborne, Natasha C. Murray-Everett, and Tiffany Mitchell Patterson
  • About the contributors.