This work supports PK-12 teachers to independently multiculturally adapt existing curriculum, to create new multicultural curriculum differentiated by content areas and grade levels, and by providing ample examples of what such multicultural transformed social studies and civic education curricula looks like in practice.

This book focuses on multicultural curriculum transformation in social students and civic education subject areas. The discussion of each area outlines critical considerations for multicultural curriculum transformation for the area by grade level and then by eight organizing tools, including content standards, relationships with and among students and their families, and evaluation of student learning and teaching effectiveness. The volume is designed to speak with PK-12 teachers as colleagues in the multicultural curriculum transformation work. Readers are exposed to “things to think about,” but also given curricular examples to work with or from in going about the actual, concrete work of curriculum change. This work supports PK-12 teachers to independently multiculturally adapt existing curriculum, to create new multicultural curriculum differentiated by content areas and grade levels, and by providing ample examples of what such multicultural transformed social studies and civic education curricula looks like in practice.

Preface

Introduction

Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Kerri J. Tobin, Norma A. Marrun, Iesha Jackson, & Christine Clark

Part I: Social Studies and Civic Education in Elementary Education

Chapter 1: Whose Stories Do We Tell?: Resources for Critical Histories in Elementary Social Studies Curriculum

Laura A. Navarro Edwards and Gülsüm Gürbüz-Küçüksari

Chapter 2: Transformational Learning Through Read-Alouds: Bringing Multicultural Perspectives to Elementary Social Studies

Jacquelyn M. Urbani, Candace Monroe-Speed, and Bhavya Doshi

Chapter 3: When Good Isn’t Good Enough: Using Multicultural Picture Books to Address Views on Poverty

Kathy Brashears

Chapter 4: Creating Classism-Conscious Classrooms

Kristen Pennycuff Trent

Part II: Social Studies and Civic Education in Middle and Middle-to-Secondary Education

Chapter 5: Seeing Truth, Banishing Lies: Re-Seeing the “Indigenous Peoples” Unit in Middle Elementary School Social Studies

Debi Khasnabis, Simona Goldin, Mary Bassett, Jeannie Crayne, and Salli A. Kropp

Chapter 6: The History, Memorialization, and Modern Echoes of Blackbirding

John Bickford, David Bunton, and Helen Stacy Bunton

Part III: Social Studies and Civic Education in Secondary Education

Chapter 7: Real World Problems: Social Justice and Community Explorations

Elizabeth M. McDonald, Rachelle Savitz, and Kristen E. Duncan

Chapter 8: Narrative Integrity: Reflection as Social and Civic Education

Nick Bardo and Joanelle Morales

Chapter 9: Critical Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in High School World History, U.S. History, and Civics Curricula

Betsy Gutstein

Part IV: Social Studies and Civic Education Across the PK-12 and Teacher Education Curriculum

Chapter 10: Social Studies in Action in the Neighborhood: Civic Engagement for Kinder through Senior Year

Deanna Chappell

Chapter 11: Making Social Studies Instruction Meaningful: Ask the Good Questions

Paige Hendricks

Chapter 12: Non/Human (Un/En)Tanglements: Practitioner-Based Engagements with Post-Humanism, Multiculturalism, and Visual Materials

Timothy P. Monreal and Bretton A. Varga

Part V: Social Studies and Civic Education in Teacher Professional Development

Chapter 13: Transforming Social Studies for English Learners Through Intentional Professional Development

Margarita Jiménez-Silva, Ashley Coughlin, and Melissa Gorman Mercado

Coda

Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Kerri J. Tobin, Norma A. Marrun, Iesha Jackson, & Christine Clark