Reading the World Otherwise: Paranoid Reading, Conspiracy Theory, and Critical Thinking

• In Event: 68.061 - Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: 68.061-10 - Decolonial Interventions and Critical Curricular Design

Abstract

Using interviews with 10th grade global studies students, this paper explores how some students turn to conspiracy theories, and what this might reveal about how students make sense of the world, the government, and their capacities to theorize larger systems. What are the implications for history pedagogy?

Author

• Tadashi Dozono, Berkeley University of California