Research in social education over the last forty years has broken new ground in such areas as historical understanding, civic education, cultural studies, and curriculum and assessment. This collection is comprised of reflections on the professional trajectories of nineteen leading social studies scholars. Demonstrating that their professional interests have emerged from their autobiographies, the scholars write about their personal influences, professional choices, and contributions. The book reveals how social justice, difference and diversity, and a commitment to the ongoing project of democracy have been central to their work. The chapters in this volume reveal leading social educators’ determined sense of urgency about making the world a better place through their leadership in the field. Each essay provides students, practitioners, and researchers alike with background on the nineteen scholars. Also, the scholars provide lists of their favorite publications as well as the works of other scholars that influenced them. Taken together, the chapters in this volume offer thoughts on the past, present, and future of social studies.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface; Foreword; Introduction; Legacies of the Chat-N-Nibble; Tex/Mex Border Roots and Beyond; The Accidental Educationist; Continuity, Challenge and Change Over the Course of a Professional Career; Forty Days and Forty Nights; Framing a Scholarly Life; Social Studies and Social Change from the Local to the Global; The Power of a Past; Crossing Cultures and Global Interconnectedness; Progressing Through Education; Building Bridges Between Rice and Potatoes; Travels with (Un)Conventional Wisdom; A Sense of Where You Are; On Being Critical; From Social Reconstruction to Social Education in a Tragic Context; Identifying What Matters; The Poorly Planned Trajectory of a Slow but Impulsive Apprentice; The Evolution of a Civic Educator; What Kind of Scholar?
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