This fully updated and revised edition includes fourteen new chapters on contemporary topics such as critical race theory, decolonizing the curriculum, economics education, and children's rights.

The Social Studies Curriculum, Fifth Edition updates the definitive overview of the issues teachers face when creating learning experiences for students in social studies. Renowned for connecting diverse elements of the social studies curriculum-from history to cultural studies to contemporary social issues-the book offers a unique and critical perspective that continues to separate it from other texts. The social studies curriculum is contested terrain both epistemologically and politically. Completely updated and revised, the fifth edition includes fourteen new chapters and covers the politics of the social studies curriculum, questions of historical perspective, Black education and critical race theory, whiteness and anti-racism, decolonial literacy and decolonizing the curriculum, gender and sexuality, Islamophobia, critical media literacy, evil in social studies, economics education, anarchism, children's rights and Earth democracy, and citizenship education. Readers are encouraged to reconsider their assumptions and understandings of the purposes, nature, and possibilities of the social studies curriculum.

Preface

Introduction: Curriculum Ideologies, Social Studies Traditions, and the Teacher-Curriculum Encounter
E. Wayne Ross

Part 1: Purposes of the Social Studies Curriculum

1. It Is All Indoctrination: Power and the Impossibility of Apolitical Social Studies Curriculum
Wayne Au

2. A Curricular Reading of Historical Perspective, Agency, and Viral Futures in Social Education
Kent den Heyer

3. A Critical Media Literacy Analysis of Social Studies Education
Emil Marmol

Part II: Social Issues and the Social Studies Curriculum

4. Beyond the Nation-State: A Foundational and Black Diasporic Examination of the Politics of Black Educational Curriculum
Christopher L. Busey and Tianna I. Dowie-Chin

5. The Politics of Black History in the United States: Black History Mandates and Anti–Critical Race Theory Laws
LaGarrett J. King, Brianne Pitts, and Daniel Tulino

6. Does Social Studies Want to Be Anti-Racist? Thoughts on Decentering Whiteness in Curriculum
Andrea M. Hawkman

7. Social Studies as a Site for Building Decolonial Literacy
Shannon Leddy (Métis)

8. Settler Social Studies: On Disappointment and Hope for the Future
Sarah B. Shear and Leilani Sabzalian (Alutiiq)

9. A Queer Agenda for Gender<>Sexuality and Social Education
Sandra J. Schmidt

10. Responding to Islamophobia in the Classroom
Özlem Sensoy

Part III: The Social Studies Curriculum in Practice

11. Critical Historical Inquiry: Disrupting the Dominant Narrative
Cinthia S. Salinas and Brooke Blevins

12. Studying Evil in Social Studies
Cathryn van Kessel

13. Does She Even Go Here? Economics and Its Place in Social Studies Education
Erin C. Adams

14. An Eco-Anarchic Social Studies: Teaching for Children's Rights and Earth Democracy
Brandon Edwards-Schuth and John Lupinacci

15. Teaching for Critically Engaged Denizenship: Lessons From Morocco on Teaching for an Empowered Other Civic Status
Jennice McCafferty-Wright

16. Pedagogical Imaginaries for Dangerous Citizenship
E. Wayne Ross

Part IV: Afterword

17. What Is the Future of Social Studies Curriculum?
E. Wayne Ross

List of Contributors
Index