The social studies curriculum: purposes, problems, and possibilities

ǂg Part I: ǂt Purposes of the social studies curriculum. ǂt Social studies curriculum migration : confronting challenges in the 21st century / ǂr C. Gregg Jorgensen ; ǂt Social studies curriculum and teaching in the era of standardization / ǂr E. Wayne Ross, Sandra Mathison, and Kevin D. Vinson ; ǂt Creating authentic spaces for democratic social studies education / ǂr Christopher Leahey ; ǂt "Capitalism is for the body, religion is for the soul" : insurgent social studies for the 22nd century / ǂr Abraham P. DeLeon

ǂg Part II: ǂt Social issues and the social studies curriculum. ǂt Dangerous citizenship / ǂr E. Wayne Ross and Kevin D. Vinson ; ǂt Teaching students to think about patriotism / ǂr Joel Westheimer ; ǂt Ecological democracy : an environmental approach to citizenship education / ǂr Neil O. Houser ; ǂt Native studies, praxis, and the public good / ǂr Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) ; ǂt Marxism and critical multicultural social studies : redux / ǂr Curry Stephenson Malott and Marc Pruyn ; ǂt Prejudice, racism, and the social studies curriculum / ǂr Jack L. Nelson and Valerie Ooka Pang ; ǂt The language of gender, sex, and sexuality and youth experiences in schools / ǂr Lisa W. Loutzenheiser

ǂg Part III: ǂt The social studies curriculum in practice. ǂt Making assessment work for teaching and learning / ǂr Sandra Mathison ; ǂt Why inquiry? / ǂr Doug Selwyn ; ǂt Beyond fearing the savage : responding to Islamophobia in the classroom / ǂr Özlem Sensoy ; ǂt Class struggle in the classroom / ǂr Gregory Queen ; ǂt Critical medial literacy and social studies : paying heed to Orwell and Huxley / ǂr Paul Orlowski ; ǂt Teaching democracy : what schools need to do / ǂr Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer

ǂg Part IV: Conclusion. ǂt Remaking the social studies curriculum / ǂr E. Wayne Ross.

pt. 1. Purposes of the social studies curriculum: The struggle for the social studies curriculum / E. Wayne Ross. History as the core of social studies education / Michael Whelan. The unique mission of the social studies / David Warren Saxe

pt. 2. Social issues and the social studies curriculum: Social studies and feminism / Nel Noddings. Gender in social education / Jane Bernard-Powers. Against the sovereignty of origins: contradictions in the experience of racial inequality in education and society / Cameron McCarthy. Multicultural social studies: schools as places for examining and challenging inequality / David Hursh

pt. 3. The social studies curriculum in practice: Crafting a culturally relevant social studies approach / Gloria Ladson-Billings. Social studies and the arts / Terrie L. Epstein. Science in social studies: reclaiming science for social knowledge / Stephen C. Fleury. Infusing global perspectives into the social studies curriculum / Merry M. Merryfield. Teaching social issues: implementing an issues-centered curriculum / Ronald W. Evans. Assessment in social studies: moving toward authenticity / Sandra Mathison.