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Toward a Stranger and More Posthuman Social Studies

Sat, April 15, 9:50 to 11:20am CDT (9:50 to 11:20am CDT), Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, Floor: 1st Floor, Atlantic E

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

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According to the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), the purpose of social studies education (SSE) is to “to help young people make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world” (NCSS, 2010, paragraph 1). However, we are concerned with the passivitivity of this guiding statement and how it fails to address intra-actions/entanglements occurring between humans and more-than-humans that animate how the more-than-human world is experienced and cared for (Kimmerer, 2013; Nxumalo, 2020; Snaza, 2019). In this way, this session calls for a stranger conceptualization of SSE that operationalizes posthumanism with the aim of disrupting human exceptionalism and examining structures that evoke/(re)produce in-human/ness.

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