Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 19 Issue 2

“Is it a civics lesson?”: centering the local to encourage political engagement

Annaly Babb-Guerra

Civic education in the US has historically centered the nation-state. This is often disempowering for marginalized students who exist outside the national narrative and political…

Learning about place from Indigenous Elders: self-study in social studies education

Muffet Trout

This paper explores the effects of land education on the practice of a White social studies teacher educator who wanted to teach about the ecological crisis.

Where we are: reflecting on our use of critical mapping practices for spatial justice in teacher education

Timothy Monreal, Matthew R. Deroo, Brianne Pitts

The purpose of this article is for three teacher educators to reflect on their use of mapping and mapping-adjacent activities in university courses vis-à-vis the development of…

Promoting historical empathy with a local history research project about the pandemic

Katherine Perrotta, Katlynn Cross

We examined how high school students demonstrated historical empathy through conducting local history place-based research to create an exhibit and companion book about the impact…

“Only memories:” place-based holocaust education in contemporary Poland

Anna Marisa Yonas

The purpose of this self-study is to analyze my experiences learning in Poland, the country where Nazis imprisoned and murdered my family. I share findings from multiple museum…

Between villainification and heroification: toward a theory of nuanced ethical judgments

Paul J. Yoder

The purpose of this conceptual article is to examine the role of villainification and heroification in social studies through critically analyzing the author’s place-based…

“Nothing compares to actually listening”: experiences with sacrificial listening and place-based education

Amy Allen, Carey Stewart, Mason Engelhardt

Recent scholarship has called for researchers to recognize the urgency of place-based education as a critical component of social studies pedagogy. This study seeks to understand…

Developing notions of place in an undergraduate elementary social studies methods course

Ariel Cornett, Erin Piedmont

Place-based, social studies teaching and learning has the potential to foster engaged citizens connected and committed to improving their communities. This study explored the…

Reclaiming Linnentown: a critical place-based approach to decolonize social studies curriculum

Shuang Fu

This article aims to examine the manifestation of coloniality within social studies curricula and explore strategies for rejecting colonial paradigms through teaching praxis. The…