Natalie Keefer is associate professor of social studies education, graduate coordinator, and Co-Director of the Louisiana Center for Research and Education on Languages and Literacies at the University of Louisiana Lafayette.Tori K. Flint is associate professor of literacy and early childhood education in the College of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

• List of Figures and TablesPart One: Critical Reflections: Centering Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness in the Classroom ContextIntroduction: Gazing Inward and Outward by Connecting SEL, Mindfulness, and Critical Pedagogies in the Social Studies ClassroomNatalie Keefer and Tori K. FlintChapter One: “Still Can’t Say Namaste?!”: Making Asians and Asian Americans Visible in the School-Based Mindfulness Movement Mohit Mehta and Joanna BattChapter Two: Teaching Critical Affective Civic Literacy through Social Studies InquiryPatrick KeeganChapter Three: Civic Mindfulness: Teaching About Racism with Courage and CompassionElizabeth Yeager Washington, Maria Cristina da Costa Leite, and Ana PuigChapter Four: From the Null to the Explicit: Building Antiracist Practices Into our Everyday Teaching of Social StudiesBrittany L. Jones and Melanie M. McCormickChapter Five: Giving Voice to the Struggle for Civil Rights: Utilizing Memorialism to Develop Students' Historical Empathy SkillsNefertar

Natalie Keefer and Tori Flint have curated an important collection of work on social studies curriculum that is as relevant as today’s headlines. By addressing mindfulness, they also examine the critical purposes of the social studies in contemporary life – the education of an informed, thoughtful, reflective citizenry that approaches both contemporary and enduring issues with empathy, compassion, wisdom and understanding. Indeed, while the focus is clearly on the social studies, this is a book for anyone who seeks to understand how curriculum can and should change the nature of learning. It’s a must read for teachers, scholars, and thought leaders who seek to heal a divided nation and a fractured global community.

Natalie Keefer is associate professor of social studies education, graduate coordinator, and Co-Director of the Louisiana Center for Research and Education on Languages and Literacies at the University of Louisiana Lafayette.Tori K. Flint is associate professor of literacy and early childhood education in the College of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

• List of Figures and TablesPart One: Critical Reflections: Centering Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness in the Classroom ContextIntroduction: Gazing Inward and Outward by Connecting SEL, Mindfulness, and Critical Pedagogies in the Social Studies ClassroomNatalie Keefer and Tori K. FlintChapter One: “Still Can’t Say Namaste?!”: Making Asians and Asian Americans Visible in the School-Based Mindfulness Movement Mohit Mehta and Joanna BattChapter Two: Teaching Critical Affective Civic Literacy through Social Studies InquiryPatrick KeeganChapter Three: Civic Mindfulness: Teaching About Racism with Courage and CompassionElizabeth Yeager Washington, Maria Cristina da Costa Leite, and Ana PuigChapter Four: From the Null to the Explicit: Building Antiracist Practices Into our Everyday Teaching of Social StudiesBrittany L. Jones and Melanie M. McCormickChapter Five: Giving Voice to the Struggle for Civil Rights: Utilizing Memorialism to Develop Students' Historical Empathy SkillsNefertar

Natalie Keefer and Tori Flint have curated an important collection of work on social studies curriculum that is as relevant as today’s headlines. By addressing mindfulness, they also examine the critical purposes of the social studies in contemporary life – the education of an informed, thoughtful, reflective citizenry that approaches both contemporary and enduring issues with empathy, compassion, wisdom and understanding. Indeed, while the focus is clearly on the social studies, this is a book for anyone who seeks to understand how curriculum can and should change the nature of learning. It’s a must read for teachers, scholars, and thought leaders who seek to heal a divided nation and a fractured global community.

Natalie Keefer is associate professor of social studies education, graduate coordinator, and Co-Director of the Louisiana Center for Research and Education on Languages and Literacies at the University of Louisiana Lafayette.Tori K. Flint is associate professor of literacy and early childhood education in the College of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

• List of Figures and TablesPart One: Critical Reflections: Centering Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness in the Classroom ContextIntroduction: Gazing Inward and Outward by Connecting SEL, Mindfulness, and Critical Pedagogies in the Social Studies ClassroomNatalie Keefer and Tori K. FlintChapter One: “Still Can’t Say Namaste?!”: Making Asians and Asian Americans Visible in the School-Based Mindfulness Movement Mohit Mehta and Joanna BattChapter Two: Teaching Critical Affective Civic Literacy through Social Studies InquiryPatrick KeeganChapter Three: Civic Mindfulness: Teaching About Racism with Courage and CompassionElizabeth Yeager Washington, Maria Cristina da Costa Leite, and Ana PuigChapter Four: From the Null to the Explicit: Building Antiracist Practices Into our Everyday Teaching of Social StudiesBrittany L. Jones and Melanie M. McCormickChapter Five: Giving Voice to the Struggle for Civil Rights: Utilizing Memorialism to Develop Students' Historical Empathy SkillsNefertar

Natalie Keefer and Tori Flint have curated an important collection of work on social studies curriculum that is as relevant as today’s headlines. By addressing mindfulness, they also examine the critical purposes of the social studies in contemporary life – the education of an informed, thoughtful, reflective citizenry that approaches both contemporary and enduring issues with empathy, compassion, wisdom and understanding. Indeed, while the focus is clearly on the social studies, this is a book for anyone who seeks to understand how curriculum can and should change the nature of learning. It’s a must read for teachers, scholars, and thought leaders who seek to heal a divided nation and a fractured global community.