Difficult Pasts, Possible Futures: A Systematic Literature Review on Difficult Histories in Social Studies Education, 2004–2022

• In Event: Social Studies Under Threat: Teaching Through/Against Hostility, Hate, and Erasure

Abstract

Research on difficult histories (DH) in social studies education is a prolific subject of study recently. This paper reports on initial findings and implications of a systematic literature review of empirical research on DH in social studies education conducted in the United States and Canada over the last twenty years.

Authors

• Brittany Jones, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Kim Edmondson, University of Alberta