Learning to be in the World with Others: Difficult Knowledge and Social Studies Education
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. In such learning, interactions invite and enliven our passionate responses, or prompt us to avoid them. Interpreting and working with these often emotional reactions is critical to social studies education and developing strategies for individuals to participate in democracy. Garrett illustrates ways that learning about the world does not occur in absence of our intimate relations to knowledge, the way learning sometimes feels like our undoing, and how new knowledge can feel more like a burden than an advantage.

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Learning to be in the World with Others: Difficult Knowledge and Social Studies Education
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. In such learning, interactions invite and enliven our passionate responses, or prompt us to avoid them. Interpreting and working with these often emotional reactions is critical to social studies education and developing strategies for individuals to participate in democracy. Garrett illustrates ways that learning about the world does not occur in absence of our intimate relations to knowledge, the way learning sometimes feels like our undoing, and how new knowledge can feel more like a burden than an advantage.

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

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

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

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

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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. In such learning, interactions invite and enliven our passionate responses, or prompt us to avoid them. Interpreting and working with these often emotional reactions is critical to social studies education and developing strategies for individuals to participate in democracy. Garrett illustrates ways that learning about the world does not occur in absence of our intimate relations to knowledge, the way learning sometimes feels like our undoing, and how new knowledge can feel more like a burden than an advantage.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781433132377
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 02/07/2017
Series: Counterpoints: Studies in Criticality , #506
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(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.

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