E Wayne Ross

The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities E Wayne Ross

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: E. Wayne Ross is Professor of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has written and edited many books, including (with Abraham P. DeLeon) "Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Social Education: New Perspectives for Social Studies Education."Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Part I. Purposes of the Social Studies Curriculum -- 1. Social Studies Curriculum Migration: Confronting Challenges in the 21st Century / C. Gregg Jorgensen -- 2. Social Studies Curriculum and Teaching in the Era of Standardization / E. Wayne Ross, Sandra Mathison, Kevin D. Vinson -- 3. Creating Authentic Spaces for Democratic Social Studies Education / Christopher Leahey -- 4. Capitalism Is for the Body Religion Is for the Soul: Insurgent Social Studies for the 22nd Century / Abraham P. DeLeon -- Part II. Social Issues and the Social Studies Curriculum -- 5. Dangerous Citizenship / E. Wayne Ross, Kevin D. Vinson -- 6. Teaching Students to Think about Patriotism / Joel Westheimer -- 7. Ecological Democracy: An Environmental Approach to Citizenship Education / Neil O. Houser -- 8. Native Studies, Praxis, and the Public Good Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) -- 9. Marxism and Critical Multicultural Social Studies: Redux / Curry Stephenson Malott, Marc Pruyn -- 10. Prejudice, Racism, and the Social Studies Curriculum / Jack L. Nelson, Valerie Ooka Pang -- 11. The Language of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality and Youth Experiences in Schools / Lisa W. Loutzenheiser -- Part III. The Social Studies Curriculum in Practice -- 12. Making Assessment Work for Teaching and Learning / Sandra Mathison -- 13. Why Inquiry? / Doug Selwyn -- 14. Beyond Fearing the Savage: Responding to Islamophobia in the Classroom / Ozlem Sensoy -- 15. Class Struggle in the Classroom / Gregory Queen -- 16. Critical Media Literacy and Social Studies: Paying Heed to Orwell and Huxley / Paul Orlowski -- 17. Teaching Democracy: What Schools Need to Do / Joseph Kahne, Joel Westheimer -- Part IV. Conclusion -- 18. Remaking the Social Studies Curriculum / E. Wayne Ross -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index. Publisher Marketing: "The Social Studies Curriculum, Fourth Edition" updates the definitive overview of the issues teachers face when creating learning experiences for students in social studies. The book connects the diverse elements of the social studies curriculum civic, global, social issues offering a unique and critical perspective that separates it from other texts. Completely updated, this book includes twelve new chapters on the history of the social studies; democratic social studies; citizenship education; anarchist inspired transformative social studies; patriotism; ecological democracy; Native studies; inquiry teaching; Islamophobia; capitalism and class struggle; gender, sex, sexuality, and youth experiences in school; and critical media literacy. All the chapters from the previous edition have been thoroughly revised and updated, including those on teaching social studies in the age of curriculum standardization and high-stakes testing, critical multicultural social studies, prejudice and racism, assessment, and teaching democracy. Readers are encouraged to reconsider their assumptions and understanding about the origins, purposes, nature, and possibilities of the social studies curriculum." Contributor Bio:  Ross, E Wayne E. Wayne Ross is Professor, Dept. of Curriculum Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is the General Editor of the four-volume "Defending Public Schools", and Co-General Editor of the four-volume series "Race, Ethnicity and Education".