Civics Education in Contentious Times - Working With Teachers to Create Locally Specific Curricula in a Post

This book presents research on creating and teaching civics curriculum in contentious times. The author provides detailed accounts of this research and proposes conceptual frameworks for the processes of teaching and learning civic perspective-taking, a key civic process.

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1: Shifting Contexts
Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Civic-Perspective Taking
Chapter 3: "If Donald Trump Doesn't Like Our School, is He Going to Knock it Down?": Students' Triumphs and Challenges in Learning Civics
Chapter 4: Contextually-Specific Knowledge: How Teachers Designed and Taught this Unit
Chapter 5: Where Do We Go From Here?: Implications for Future Teaching and Research
Afterword
References
About the Author

About the author

William Toledo is assistant professor of elementary social studies education in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Product details

• Authors: William Toledo
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781793611635
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-163-5
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Classroom Management, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Social sciences, Educational: Social sciences, social studies, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Social Science, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies