Social Studies Education in Latin America

This book offers a path forward, for the growing collaboration in social studies education between Global North and South educators, practitioners, and researchers. In this volume, leading critical social studies education researchers from Latin America explore the constant presence of colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and state violence.

Autorentext

Sebastián Plá is Senior Researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

E. Wayne Ross is Professor in Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia

Inhalt

1. The New Social Studies Research in Latin America: An Introduction, 2. Educational Trajectories in an Adverse Political Context: The Social Sciences and History in the Colombian School, 3. Education, History, and Memory in the Chilean School: A Perspective on Chile's Recent History from the Narratives of High School Students, 4. Interculturalism in the Training of History Teachers: Persistence of the Disciplinary Code, 5. Decolonial Pedagogy: Intersections and Resistances of Memory and History, in Mapuche Communities of Southern Chile, 6. Afrodescendants in Latin America and Social Studies: A Perspective from Mexico, 7. When Gender and Sexuality Intersect with History Teaching: Brazil is Burning, 8. Crossroads of History Teaching and Learning and Political Science in Latin America: The Residente Project, 9. Towards a new disciplinary code in teaching history in Argentina: A look at materiality at the secondary level, 10. On the History We Teach Every Day: Historics, Historiography and Philosophy of History, 11. The Critical Reading of the Southern Geographical Reality: The Challenge of School Geography, 12. The Panorama of Social Studies in Latin America Curricula