Toolbox of Critical Knowledge: Cultural Citizenship in Fifth-Grade Social Studies

• In Event: Social Studies Education: From National Policies to the Classroom

Abstract

Although social studies and education in general has its roots as the enactment of democratic ideals, scholars have suggested civic education too often relies on restrictive and exclusionary definitions of citizenship. In response, researchers have used frameworks such as cultural citizenship to emphasize cultural identity, communal approaches to citizenship, and the negotiation of citizenship by historically marginalized persons. In this paper, we examine how one fifth-grade teacher attempted to attend to students’ cultural citizenship through critical social studies experiences.

Authors

• Anna Falkner, University of Memphis

• Katherina Ann Payne, The University of Texas - Austin