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A Renewed Approach to Civic Inquiries for Social Justice

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Teaching and Curriculum 


Agarwal-Rangnath, R. (2013). Social studies, literacy, and social justice. Teachers College Press. 

Au, W. (2014). Rethinking multicultural education: Teaching for racial and cultural justice. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools publications. 


Bigelow, B. (Ed.). (2006). The line between us: Teaching about the border and Mexican immigration. Rethinking Schools. 


Bigelow, B., & Peterson, B. (Eds.). (2002). Rethinking globalization: Teaching for justice in an unjust world. Rethinking Schools Press. 


Bigelow, B., & Swinehart, T. (Eds.). (2014). A people’s curriculum for the earth: Teaching climate change and the environmental crisis. Rethinking Schools. 


Chandler, P. T., & Hawley, T. S. (Eds.). (2017). Race lessons: Using inquiry to teach about race in social studies. NC. 


Christensen, L. (Ed.). (2000). Reading, writing, and rising up: Teaching about social justice and the power of the written word. Rethinking Schools. 


Christensen, L., Hansen, M., Peterson, B., Schlessman, E., & Watson, D. (Eds.). (2012). Rethinking elementary education. Rethinking Schools. 


Christensen, L., & Watson, D. (Eds.). (2015). Rhythm and resistance: Teaching poetry for social justice. Rethinking Schools. 


Cuauhtin, R. T., Zavala, M., Sleeter, C., Au, W. (2019). Rethinking ethnic studies.Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools publications.


Delpit, L. (2012). Multiplication is for white kids: Raising expectations for other people's children. New York, NY: The New Press. 


Hawkman, A., M. & Shear, S. B. (2020). Marking the “Invisible” Articulating whiteness in social studies education. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. 


Kumashiro, K. K. (2009). Against common sense: Teaching and learning toward social justice (2nd ed.). RoutledgeFalmer. 


Loewen, J. W. (2018). Teaching what really happened: How to avoid the tyranny of textbooks and get students excited about doing history (2nd ed.). Teachers College Press. 


Marshall, E., & Sensoy, Ö. (Eds.). (2011). Rethinking popular culture and media. Rethinking Schools. 


Murray, O. J. (2014). Queer inclusion in teacher education: Bridging theory, research, and practice. Routledge. 


Reyhner, J. (2015). Teaching Indigenous students: honoring place, community, and culture. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. 


Pollock, M. (2017). Schooltalk: Rethinking what we say about and to students every day. New York, NY: The New Press. 


Rubin, B. (2011). Making Citizens: Transforming civic learning for diverse social studies classrooms. London, UK: Routledge. 


Sadowski, M. (2016). Safe is not enough: Better schools for LGBTQ students. Harvard Education Press. 


Sanchez, A. (2019). Teaching a people’s history of abolition and the civil war: A rethinking schools project. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools publications.


Shear, S. B., Tschida, C. M., Bellows, E., Buchanan, L. B., & Saylor, E. (Eds.). (2018). (Re)Imagining elementary social studies: A controversial issues reader. IAP. 


Watson, D., Hagopian, J. & Au, W. (2018). Teaching for Black Lives. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools publications. 


Counter Narratives 


Bronski, M. A Queer history of the United States. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. 


Dunbar-Ortiz, R. (2019). An Indigenous peoples’ history of the United States: For young people. Beacon Press. 


Neilsen, K. E. (2012). A disability history of the United States. Beacon Press. 


Ortiz, P. (2018). An African American and Latinx history of the United States. Beacon Press. 


Takaki, R. (2008). A Different Mirror: A history of multicultural America. New York, NY: Bay Back Books.


Schmitke, A., Sabzalian, L., Edmundson, J. (2020). Teaching Critically about Lewis and Clark: Challenging Dominant Narratives in K-12. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. 


Zinn, H. (2005). A people’s history of the United States. New York, NY: Harper Perennial. 


Zinn, H., Konopacki, M., & Buhle, P. (2008). A people’s history of American empire. Metropolitan Books. 


Further Readings

 

Alexander, M. (2010). The New Jim Crow. New York, NY: The New Press. 


Au, W. (2012). Critical curriculum studies: Education, consciousness and the politics of knowing. Routledge. 


Au, W., Brown, A. L., & Calderón, D. (2016). Reclaiming the multicultural roots of U.S. curriculum: Communities of color and official knowledge in education. Teachers College Press. 


Bixby, J. S., & Pace, J. L. (Eds.). (2008). Educating democratic citizens in troubled times. State University of New York Press. 


Bonilla-Silva, E. (2006). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America. Oxford, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 


Delpit, L. (2006). Other People's Children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. New York, NY: The New Press.

 

Kendi, I. X., (2019). How to be an antiracist. London, UK: One World Publications.


Kendi, I. X. (2017). Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America. New York, NY: Bold Type Books. 


King, M. L. Jr. (2016). The Radical King. (Ed., C. West) Boston, MA: Beacon Press.


Levinson, M., & Fay, J. (Eds.). (2019). Democratic discord in schools: Cases and commentaries in educational ethics. Harvard Education Press. 


Love, B. L. (2019). We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. 


Milner, R. (2010). Start where you are, but don’t stay there: Understanding diversity, opportunity gaps, and teaching in today’s classrooms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. 


Pollock, M. (2008). Everyday antiracism: Getting real about race in school. New York, NY: The New Press.

 

Sabzalian, L. (2019). Indigenous children’s survivance in public schools. London, UK: Routledge. 


Tatum, B. D. (2017). Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria: And other conversations about race. New York, NY: Basic Books. 

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