{"id":5870,"date":"2022-07-05T14:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:11:18","slug":"insurgent-social-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2022\/07\/insurgent-social-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurgent Social Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-3.04.06-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5872\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-3.04.06-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-3.04.06-PM.png 1060w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-3.04.06-PM-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-3.04.06-PM-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-3.04.06-PM-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-3.04.06-PM-1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-3.04.06-PM-620x930.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Insurgent Social Studies:<\/em> <i>Scholar-Educators Disrupting Erasure and Marginality\u00a0<\/i>has just been published by<a href=\"https:\/\/myersedpress.presswarehouse.com\/browse\/book\/9781975504557\/Insurgent-Social-Studies\"> Myers Education Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The collection brings together contributions from a &#8220;new(er)&#8221; generation of social studies scholar-educators who take as one of their starting points a social studies curriculum that is &#8220;designed to erase or otherwise marginalize voices, bodies, and experiences not accepted by or created for the benefit of white supremacist society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project was inspired by Wayne Au&#8217;s conception of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00131946.2021.1878181\"> pedagogy of insurgency<\/a>. Au describes this kind of pedagogy as requiring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Bravery and risk<\/em>, as rebellious educators take the step of fighting back against social and educational injustice in public and visible ways.<\/li>\n<li><em>Allies, accomplices, and solidarity<\/em>, as educators and community members come together across different identities in order to build a more broad-based and effective movement for educational justice. This, in turn, also helps to mitigate risk.<\/li>\n<li>Understanding <em>organizing, protest, and demonstrations<\/em> as a valuable and worthwhile form of pedagogy and curriculum in itself.<\/li>\n<li>Using <em>critical analyses of power<\/em> as a central approach for teaching and learning about social and educational injustice.<\/li>\n<li>Developing a <em>curriculum of insurgency<\/em> for educators, students, and the community to engage in critical analyses of power in schools and society.<\/li>\n<li><em>Embracing<\/em> schools as sites of both oppression and liberation, and in the process also <em>reimagining<\/em> the role that schools can play in broader social change.<\/li>\n<li><em>Connecting to broader social movement<\/em>s, as educators, students, and community see and understand that their own struggles for justice and liberation are part of broader, historic traditions in the fight for change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The editors, Natasha Hakimali Merchant, Sarah B. Shear and Wayne Au, argue that &#8220;taken as a whole, a <em>pedagogy of insurgency<\/em> seeks to understand and at least partially explain the ways that teachers have the power &#8211; through pedagogy, curriculum, and community activism &#8211; to actively resist injustice while also working towards a more radically just world.<\/p>\n<p>This is a path-breaking work in social studies education and anyone who is engaged and the political\/pedagogical struggles for social justice in schools and the larger society will benefit from reading this collection.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank the editor for inviting me to write a brief Afterword.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Introduction \u2013 We Won\u2019t Wait Any Longer: An Introduction and Invitation to Insurgency for Social Studies<br \/>\n<em>Natasha Hakimali Merchant, Sarah B. Shear, and Wayne Au<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Insurgence Must Be Red: Connecting Indigenous Studies and Social Studies Education for Anticolonial Praxis<br \/>\n<em>The Turtle Island Social Studies Collective<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2. Solidarity Is a Verb: What the Black Lives Matter Movement Can Teach Social Studies About the Intersectional Fight Against Anti-Black Racism<br \/>\n<em>Tiffany Mitchell Patterson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3. The Audacity of Equality: Disrupting the Distortion of Asian America in Social Studies<br \/>\n<em>Noreen Naseem Rodr\u00edguez and Esther June Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cExistence Is Resistance\u201d: Palestine and Palestinians in Social Studies Education<br \/>\n<em>Hanadi Shatara<\/em><\/p>\n<p>5. Insurgente: A Familia in Conversation About Latinxs Voices in the Field of Social Studies<br \/>\n<em>La Familia Aponte-Safe Tirado D\u00edaz Beltr\u00e1n Ender Busey Christ<\/em><\/p>\n<p>6. Unsatisfied: The Conceptual Terrain of De-Essentializing Islam in Social Studies<br \/>\n<em>Natasha Hakimali Merchant<\/em><\/p>\n<p>7. Queer Worlding as Historical Inquiry for Insurgent Freedom-Dreaming<br \/>\n<em>Tadashi Dozono<\/em><\/p>\n<p>8. Democracy Is Interdisciplinary: The Case for Radical Civic Innovation Across Content Areas<br \/>\n<em>Antero Garcia, Nicole Mirra, and Mark Gomez<\/em><\/p>\n<p>9. Cultural Bombs and Dangerous Classes: Social Studies Education as State Apparatus in the War on Terror<br \/>\n<em>Jennice McCafferty-Wright<\/em><\/p>\n<p>10. Whiteness and White Responsibility in Social Studies<br \/>\n<em>Andrea M. Hawkman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Afterword \u2013 Insurgent Social Studies and Dangerous Citizenship<br \/>\n<em>E. Wayne Ross<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Insurgent Social Studies: Scholar-Educators Disrupting Erasure and Marginality\u00a0has just been published by Myers Education Press. 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