Getting beyond the facts : teaching social studies/social sciences in the twenty-first century / Joe L. Kincheloe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kincheloe, Joe L.

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 100.

Counterpoints ; v. 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Study and teaching--United States.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 818 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2001]

Contents:

I The Foundations of the Social Studies

1 Is There a Cure for the Twenty-First Century Social Studies Blues? Problems and Hopes 3

2 We Hate Social Studies: Traditions, Failures, and the Social Studies Methods Course

Beginning the Reform 15

3 Beyond Mere Execution: Controlling the Conceptualization of Teaching 39

4 Connecting Social Studies to the Lived World: Naming the Contemporary Social Condition and Confronting its Social Studies Curriculum 59

5 Separating Method and Subject Matter in the Name of Practicality: Modernism and its Fragmented World 87

6 Situating the Critical: What Is an Emancipatory Social Studies in the Twenty-First Century? 119

7 Developing a Twenty-First Century Democratic Social Education: Critical Tradition, Cultural Pedagogy, and the Construction of Identity 163

II Social Studies Reform: Epistemology and Knowledge Work

8 Social Studies Teachers as Scholars: From the Rationalized Methods Class to the Epistemology of Complexity 183

9 Social Studies Teachers as Knowledge Workers: Formulating the Epistemology of Complexity 241

10 What's Complex about Our Notion of Complexity? Extending the Epistemology of Complexity 283

11 Social Studies in the Web of Recent Educational Reform: Schooling for Social Regulation 317

III Research and the Social Studies

12 Social Studies Teachers as Researchers: Action Research as a Teaching Method 349

13 Exploring Water: Students as Researchers in the Social Studies Methods Course 371

14 Thanksgiving in the Elementary Social Studies Classroom: Students as Researchers Yet Again 383

15 Teachers Researching Localities in Social Studies Education: An Example

The History of Education in Shreveport, Louisiana 407

16 Socially Studying Science and Scientific Research: Integrating Social Studies and Science Education 471

IV Issues of Power in the Social Studies

17 Addressing Patriarchy in a Critical Democratic Social Studies: The Recovery of a Dominant Masculinity 511

18 Fingerprints at the Crime Scene: Power, Knowledge Production, and a Critical Democratic Social Studies 553

19 Social Studies and the Intersection of the Critical and the Cognitive: The Future of Critical Education 575

V The Disciplines and the Social Studies

20 The Ubiquitous Method: Inserting Historiography into the History Curriculum 591

21 Social Psychoanalysis in the Social Studies: Critical Theory and Historiography 603

22 Teaching a Living History for Social Justice: Subjugated Meaning in the Social Studies 617

23 "Free Enterprise" as High School Economics: Confronting the Victory of the Market 645

24 Geography in Trouble: A Diagnosis of a Sick Discipline 673

25 Educational Studies as a Component of the Social Studies Curriculum 683

26 Cultural Studies in the Social Studies 693

27 Civics in the Social Studies: Critical Democratic Citizenship Education in a Corporatized Hyperreality 709

28 Teaching Government in a Critical Social Studies: Building a Political Vision 733.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0820441627

OCLC:

47074835