Smith, Bryan (2014) Teaching a "Social Studies without Guarantees": disrupting essentialism, ameliorating exclusions and planting the seeds. Critical Literacy: theories and practices, 8 (1). pp. 64-79.

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Abstract

Social studies, burdened with the responsibility of elucidating the complexity of the cultural and social world of the student, inherits from its disciplines (history, geography, civics) a legacy of racialization and exclusion. For the past few years, I have worked through and from within this legacy to highlight some ways that the pedagogical imperatives held by the students can be used to reshape popular and taken-for-granted notions of who the “we” is in social studies inquiry. Specifically, I focus on Stanley’s (2014) exclusionary premise, emphasizing how the discipline and curriculum privileges specific notions of the national and provincial world of the students. Through this, I offer some insights into the ambivalences, resistances and acknowledgments of the students when confronted with unsettling social and historic understanding.

Item ID:	52902
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1753-0873
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2018 01:33
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