Social Studies for a Better World

An Anti-Oppressive Approach for Elementary Educators

By: Noreen Naseem Rodriguez, Katy Swalwell

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Plan and deliver a curriculum to help your students connect with the humanity of others!

In the wake of 2020, we need today's young learners to be prepared to develop solutions to a host of entrenched and complex issues, including systemic racism, massive environmental problems, deep political divisions, and future pandemics that will severely test the effectiveness and equity of our health policies. What better place to start that preparation than with a social studies curriculum that enables elementary students to envision and build a better world?

In this engaging guide, two experienced social studies educators unpack the oppressions that so often characterize the elementary curriculum-normalization, idealization, heroification, and dramatization—and show how common pitfalls can be replaced with creative solutions. Whether you're a classroom teacher, methods student, or curriculum coordinator, this is a book that can transform your understanding of the social studies disciplines and their power to disrupt the narratives that maintain current inequities.

©2022 Noreen Naseem Rodríguez and Katy Swalwell (P)2022 Tantor

For the Edcators

This book is something that can change any kind of educator view of social studies. This is for educators who want to begin to teach the real and true lives of Indigenous People.

The woman read it well

The book itself was terrible, one of the worst I’ve had to read for a class. No fault of audible, though