Out of Turmoil: Catalysts for Re-learning, Re-Teaching, and Re-imagining History and Social Science (Social Science Education Consortium Book Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798887300764

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

It is not difficult to argue that the social sciences are in a period of transition. Our day-to-day lives have been marked by uncertainty as our social lives have vacillated wildly between highs and lows, tensions between fellow citizens have heightened along ideological fault lines, and educators have been placed squarely at the center of public discourses about what—and how—we should be teaching. By any measure, we are living in a time where every moment seems to be rife with high stakes realities that must be navigated. Ladson-Billings (2020) called on educators to reimagine education and contest the notion of a “return to normal.” In the current highly polarized context where we see multiple competing narratives, rather than promoting a “return to normal” or “business as usual” approach, we argue that educators must use the lessons of the last two years, as well as draw on what we have learned from history and the social sciences. By asking ourselves how we might interrogate and inform current social landscapes and the challenges that arise from them, we have the opportunity to take leadership in fostering innovation, building solidarity, and re-imagining the teaching and learning of history and the social sciences. We recognize that humans live in multiple complex communities that include intersectional identities; relationships with power, agency, and discourses; and lived realities that are as unique as they are divergent. Consequently, the task of educators, and the goal of this volume, is to provide a clarion voice to a dynamic, relational, and undeniably human social world.

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Dean P. Vesperman, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Anne Aydinian-Perry, University of Houston

Matthew T. Missias, Grand Valley State University and Whitney G. Blankenship, San Antonio College

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798887300764
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Vesperman Dean P., Aydinian-Perry Anne, Missias Matthew T., Blankenship Whitney G.