Description
Book SynopsisCivics Education in Contentious Times: Working with Teachers to Create Locally-Specific Curricula in a Post-Truth World is a longitudinal research study that focuses on the collaboration between a researcher and elementary teachers to design and implement locally-specific civics curriculum in a predominately Latinx-serving Title I school. William Toledo details how the design team wrote and taught this curricular unit in the midst of contentious socio-political contexts and how themes from these greater contexts entered classrooms, along with proposing conceptual frameworks for teaching civic perspective-taking in these instances.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1: Shifting Contexts
Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Civic-Perspective Taking
Chapter 3: “If Donald Trump Doesn’t Like Our School, is He Going to Knock it Down?”: Students’ Triumphs and Challenges in Learning Civics
Chapter 4: Contextually-Specific Knowledge: How Teachers Designed and Taught this Unit
Chapter 5: Where Do We Go From Here?: Implications for Future Teaching and Research
Afterword
References
About the Author
