Introducing Curricular and Pedagogical Resuscitation: An Approach to Reviving the Self and Collective Through Social Studies

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 13
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Abstract

As a school subject, social studies has been on its preverbal deathbed for some time. Social studies continues to fight for a place during classroom instructional time. Nonetheless, we posit the teaching of social studies as being essential to the education of students. While not everyone will have the job of a mathematician or scientist, everyone will have the responsibility of being citizen. For African Americans however, often the reality of citizenship has not matched its democratic rhetoric. The historical and sociocultural experiences of Black students are consistently limited or ignored. Therefore, curricular and pedagogical resuscitation (CPR) emerging from the ‘soil of discontent’ and righteous indignation is offered as a way of thinking and doing social studies.

Authors

• Marcus W. Johnson, Texas State University

• Maureen Wiliette Nicol, Teachers College, Columbia University