(Re)Imagining Elementary Social Studies

Sarah B. Shear, Penn State University-AltoonaChristina M. Tschida, East Carolina UniversityElizabeth Bellows, Appalachian State UniversityLisa Brown Buchanan, University of North Carolina-WilmingtonElizabeth E. Saylor, University of Georgia

• Acknowledgements.Foreword; Jeannette Driscoll Alarcón.Chapter 1. Elementary Social Studies as Sites of Resistance: A Letter From the Editors.Part I. Pushing The Boundaries Of How We Talk About Elementary Social Studies.Chapter 2. Class Meeting as Critical Pedagogy: Addressing Controversial Topics and Enacting Shared Responsibility in Elementary Social Studies Education; Jeannette D. Alarcón and Elizabeth Bellows.Chapter 3. Black Like Me: Race Pedagogy and Black Elementary Social Studies Teacher Educators; Christopher L. Busey and Amanda E. Vickery.Chapter 4. Exposing Whiteness in the Elementary Social Studies Methods Classroom: In Pursuit of Developing Antiracist Teacher Education Candidates; Andrea M. Hawkman.Chapter 5. Feminist Theory in Elementary Social Studies Education: Making Women an Equal Part of History; Elizabeth E. Saylor.Part II. Engaging Elementary Preservice Teachers With Controversial Issues.Chapter 6. Using History Labs to Examine Immigration Policy and the DREAM Act; Cara Ward.Chapter 7. Unpacking the Paradox: Preservice Teachers' Affirming Beliefs about LGBTQ Families and the Persistent Avoidance of LGBTQ Topics in Elementary Schools; Christina M. Tschida and Lisa Brown Buchanan.Chapter 8. Not All Terrorists: A Teacher Educator's Approach to Teaching Against Islamophobia and for Religious Tolerance; Noreen Naseem Rodríguez.Chapter 9. Confronting Colonial Blindness in Citizenship Education: Recognizing Colonization, Self-Determination, and Sovereignty as Core Knowledge for Elementary Social Studies Teacher Education; Leilani Sabzalian and Sarah B. Shear.Chapter 10. Children Should Know Where Meat Comes From: Problematizing Meat-Eating in Elementary Schools; Cory Wright-Maley.Chapter 11. Putting Mrs. Rosa Parks Front and Center of an Elementary Methods Course; Lisa Gilbert.Chapter 12. The Bending of History Made Straight; Brian Gibbs.Chapter 13. Unpacking Patriotism in an Elementary Social Studies Methods Class; Sohyun An.Chapter 14. Preparing Preservice Educators to Teach American Indian Boarding School Histories; Meredith McCoy.Part III. Teaching Controversial Issues In The Elementary Classroom.Chapter 15. Mni Wiconi: Teaching the #NoDapl Movement, Native American Sovereignty, and Indigenous Knowledge in Elementary Classrooms; Dina Gilio-Whitaker.Chapter 16. Following Dylan's Lead: Student-led Discussion of Gender Variance in the Elementary Classroom; Anna Falkner and Andrea Clark.Chapter 17. Using Mendez v. Westminster to Explore Mexican American Discrimination; Maribel Santiago.Chapter 18. Hidden in History: (Re)Constructing Asian American History in Elementary Social Studies Classrooms; Noreen Naseem Rodríguez and Rosalie Ip.Chapter 19. Teaching About Enslavement Through a Critical Analysis of Three Early Childhood Historical Fiction Texts; Jay M. Shuttleworth and Angelia Lomax.Chapter 20. Not an Aberration of History: Genocide Education in Elementary Social Studies; Rebecca C. Christ.Author Biographies.

(Re)Imagining Elementary Social Studies is a timely and powerful collection that offers the best of what social studies education could and should be. Grounded in a politics of social justice, this book should be used in all elementary social studies methods courses and schools in order to develop the kinds of teachers the world needs today."" — Wayne Au, Professor, University of Washington Bothell, Editor, Rethinking Schools