Learning to be in the World with Others: Difficult Knowledge and Social Studies Education

by H. James Garrett

Overview

In this book, H. James Garrett inquires into the processes of learning about the social world, populated as it often is with bewildering instances of loss, violence, and upheaval.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433132384
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	02/14/2017
Series:	Counterpoints: Studies in Criticality , #506
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

H. James Garrett is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia in Athens. He received his Ph.D. in curriculum, instruction, and teacher education from Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

Permissions xiii

Chapter 1 Introduction: Difficult Knowledge, Psychoanalysis, and Social Studies Education 1

Chapter 2 Difficult Knowledge: Encounters with Social Trauma in Pedagogy 17

Chapter 3 Traces in Narratives About Knowledge Evidence, Controversy and Difficult Knowledge 49

Chapter 4 Movements of Difficult Knowledge 61

Chapter 5 The Presence of History and Learning to Teach: Novel Reading in Social Studies Education 109

Chapter 6 Questions and Perspectives in Social Studies Education 133

Index 151