Common Sense and Official Knowledge: The Case of Social Studies Standards Reform in Missouri

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine the ongoing creation of social studies standards in Missouri and explore the ways in which this production is rife with exertions of racialized power. Through this inquiry we hope illuminate how certain interactions within the standards writing committee tilt the balance of “official knowledge” toward ideological preservation.

Authors

• Andrea M Hawkman, University of Missouri

• Alexander Cuenca, Saint Louis University