Toward a stranger and more posthuman social studies / edited by Bretton A. Varga, Timothy Monreal, and Rebecca C. Christ ; foreword by Boni Wozolek ; afterword by Nathan Snaza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Varga, Bretton A., editor.

Monreal, Timothy, editor.

Christ, Rebecca C., editor.

Wozolek, Boni, 1984- writer of foreword.

Snaza, Nathan, writer of afterword.

Series:

Research and practice in social studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Study and teaching.

Social sciences.

Posthumanism.

Physical Description:

xviii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This collection of essays explores posthuman approaches to social studies education, challenging the field to think differently about the precarious status of the world. Authors examine how educators and scholars can foster more ethical ways of teaching, learning, and researching by cultivating a greater sense of attunement to the more-than-human"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: Becoming posthuman social studies

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Be(com)ing strange(r): Toward a posthuman social studies

Life lessons: Posthuman ideas about life for an enlivened social studies eduction

A thousand deaths: Current events and racial reproductions of the dead and dying

Unsettling the "social" in social studies

Toppling the (Hu)Man: Posthumanism and the mattering of historical spaces

Lives in/of things

Cities as pedagogues: Materiality in Paris's public sphere as a teacher of consciousness

Mattering the research

Set in stone?: Social studies teacher candidate's conceptions of matter

Following for the community

"I'm a monster now": The construction of spacetimemattering through intra-action in childhood

Arboreal methodologies: The promise of getting lost (with feminist new materialism and indigenous ontologies) for social studies

Into the sea: A fictive speculation on how to cope at the end of the world

Not as strange as dying: Reimagining U.S. social studies as place-based and decolonized

Possibilities for knowing differently with a more-than-human ladybird-pedagogue

(In)separatable: Social studies with/out the human

The (self/re)generating sacred energy called teotl: Using Nahua philosophy to introduce posthumanist thinking

Beading shkodé

Re/membering ethical relationality: Re/telling stories of dis/citizenship as lived

Nonhuman alliances

Youth are already queer: Agentive possibilities among queer TikTok creators

Any/bodies: Posthumanism and economics education

Indeterminacy and strangeness in the posthuman classroom: Thinking toward possibility

Embracing strangeness, but not becoming strangers

Afterword: Afterwards

Appendix: Guiding concepts

Endnotes

Index

About the editors and contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Toward a stranger and more posthuman social studies

ISBN:

9780807768273

0807768278

9780807768266

080776826X

OCLC:

1346616955