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Teaching Difficult Histories in Difficult Times: Stories of Practice(Research and Practice in Social Studies Series)

Teaching Difficult Histories in Difficult Times: Stories of Practice(Research and Practice in Social Studies Series)


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Despite limitations and challenges, teaching about difficult histories is an essential aspect of social studies courses and units across grade levels. This practical resource highlights stories of K–12 practitioners who have critically examined and reflected on their experiences with planning and teaching histories identified as difficult. Featuring the voices of teacher educators, classroom teachers, and museum educators, these stories provide readers with rare examples of how to plan for, teach, and reflect on difficult histories. The book is divided into four main sections: Centering Difficult History Content, Centering Teacher and Student Identities, Centering Local and Contemporary Contexts, and Centering Teacher Decision-making. Key topics include teaching about genocide, slavery, immigration, war, racial violence, and terrorism. This dynamic book highlights the practitioner’s perspective to reveal how teachers can and do think critically about their motivations and the methods they use to engage students in rigorous, complex, and appropriate studies of the past.

Book Features:

  • Expanded notions of what difficult histories can be and how they can be approached pedagogically.
  • Thoughtful pictures of practice of some of the most complex histories to teach.
  • Stories of K–12 teachers and museum educators with the research of leading scholars in social studies education.
  • Examples from a wide range of educational contexts in the United States and other countries.
  • Resources useful to teachers and teacher educators.


Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Foreword Cinthia Salinas ix
  • Introduction: Framing Difficult Histories 1
  • Lauren McArthur Harris, Maia Sheppard, and Sara A. Levy
  • PART I: CENTERING DIFFICULT HISTORY CONTENT 13
  • 1.  Representing Difficult History Through Images and Narratives With Museum Partners: Learning and Teaching at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum 15
  • Rebecca L. Rosen, Kevin W. Meuwissen, Megan C. Jones, and Jennifer M. Lagasse
  • 2.  Rethinking the Teaching of Black History: Teachers, Students, and the Development of a Black History and Literature Course Using a Black Historical Consciousness Framework 28
  • Gregory Simmons, LaGarrett J. King, and Mary Adu-Gyamfi
  • 3.  Teaching About the Nanjing Safety Zone to Introduce Human Rights 41
  • Jing A. Williams, Christian D. Pirlet, and Mary Johnson
  • PART II: CENTERING TEACHER AND STUDENT IDENTITIES 53
  • 4.  "Step by Courageous Step": A Preservice Teacher's Understanding of the Story of Ona Judge 55
  • Amanda E. Vickery, Shalicia Hobby, and Marquita Foster
  • 5.  Pacific Learners, Identity, and Difficult Histories: A New Zealand Case Study 68
  • Bronwyn Houliston
  • 6.  Perpetual War as Difficult History: Teaching Against Militarism and for Peace 80
  • Scott T. Glew
  • 7.  Teaching the Holocaust: A Search for Its Redemptive Value 90
  • Doran Katz
  • PART III: CENTERING LOCAL AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS 103
  • 8.  From Praying Towns to the National Day of Mourning: Centering Indigenous Peoples' Survivance and Resistance Within American History 105
  • Taylor Collins and Christopher C. Martell
  • 9.  "When People Stay Silent, It Looks Like Newberry Is the Only One With This Problem": Confronting the Difficult History of Racial Violence in an African American History Course 117
  • Elizabeth Yeager Washington, Catherine G. Atria, Jordan Marlowe, and Christina Aulino
  • 10.  Comparing Historical Injustices: The Possibilities and Challenges of Teaching Multiple Injustices From an Anticolonial Perspective 129
  • James Miles and Rosie Thind
  • 11.  The Paradoxical Qualities of Teaching Difficult History 142
  • Tyler Moon and H. James (Jim) Garrett
  • PART IV: CENTERING TEACHER DECISION-MAKING 153
  • 12.  "The 13th Amendment, It Don't Say That We Kings": Teaching the History of Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice Reform Through Hip-Hop Pedagogy 155
  • Kelly R. Allen
  • 13.  Teaching Difficult Histories of Immigration at the Elementary Level 167
  • Tara Rich and Sohyun An
  • 14.  "If You're Not Talking About Those Things, You're Not Talking About History": Interrogating and Discussing Secondary Sources 179
  • Lance Weisend, Colleen Fitzpatrick, and Stephanie van Hover
  • 15.  "These Are Human Beings We're Talking About": 9th Graders Think and Write About the Middle Passage 191
  • Jennifer Hauver, Victoria Lisle, and Ga-Min Lee
  • About the Contributors 204
  • Index 206


About the Author :

Lauren McArthur Harris is an associate professor of history education at Arizona State University. Maia Sheppard is an assistant professor and coordinator of social studies education at the University of Iowa. Sara A. Levy is an associate professor of education at Ithaca College.



Review :

"Overall, this book is an important read for prospective and practicing teachers and teacher educators, administrators, researchers, and policymakers who are willing to confront the challenges of teaching difficult histories. It offers an inspiring and promising set of tools that social studies and history educators and scholars can use to tackle this challenging process."

-- "Teachers College Record"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780807766446
  • Publisher: Teachers' College Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Teachers' College Press
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Series Title: Research and Practice in Social Studies Series
  • Sub Title: Stories of Practice
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0807766445
  • Publisher Date: 11 Feb 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 314 gr


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