Teaching Villainification in Social Studies - Pedagogies to Deepen Understanding of Social Evils

"These inquiries into villainification offer powerful insights for teaching about historical wrongdoing in more nuanced ways. Includes topics related to U.S. politics, financial education, Holocaust education, difficult histories, apocalypse fiction, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, technology use, LGBTQ school experiences, rape culture, geographies of invasion, and the female body"--

About the author

Cathryn van Kessel is an associate professor of curriculum studies at Texas Christian University and a former secondary social studies and Latin teacher from Canada. Kimberly Edmondson is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta and a high school social studies teacher in Alberta, Canada.

Summary

In this collection, scholars from the United States, Canada and Australia examine the concepts of villainification and anti-villainification in social studies curriculum, popular culture, as well as within sociocultural contexts and their implications.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kimberly Edmondson (Editor), Wayne Journell (Editor), Cathryn van Kessel (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2024
• EAN: 9780807769683
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6968-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Research and Practice in Socia; Research and Practice in Social Studies Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology