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Leaders in Social Education

Intellectual Self-Portraits

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Christine Woyshner

    1. Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

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  • This collection highlights the careers of major scholars in social studies research and shows through autobiographical reflections how their families, interests, and cultural backgrounds shaped their career paths and research in the field.

Part of the book series: Leaders in Educational Studies (LES)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Christine Woyshner
    Pages 1-3

  3. Legacies of the Chat-N-Nibble

    • Keith C. Barton
    Pages 5-15

  4. Tex/Mex Border Roots and Beyond

    • Gloria Contreras
    Pages 17-30

  5. The Accidental Educationist

    • Margaret Smith Crocco
    Pages 31-41

  6. Continuity, Challenge, and Change over the Course of a Professional Career

    • Terrie Epstein
    Pages 43-53

  7. Forty Days and Forty Nights

    • Ronald W. Evans
    Pages 55-70

  8. Framing a Scholarly Life

    • S. G. Grant
    Pages 71-84

  9. Social Studies and Social Change from the Local to the Global

    • Carole L. Hahn
    Pages 85-100

  10. The Power of a Past

    • Linda S. Levstik
    Pages 101-110

  11. Crossing Cultures and Global Interconnectedness

    • Merry M. Merryfield
    Pages 111-122

  12. Progressing Through Education

    • Jack L. Nelson
    Pages 123-135

  13. Building Bridges between Rice and Potatoes

    • Valerie Ooka Pang
    Pages 137-150

  14. Travels with (UN)Conventional Wisdom

    • Walter Parker
    Pages 151-162

  15. A Sense of where you are

    • E. Wayne Ross
    Pages 163-178

  16. On Being Critical

    • Avner Segall
    Pages 179-192

  17. From Social Reconstruction to Social Education in a Tragic Context

    • William B. Stanley
    Pages 193-209

  18. Identifying what Matters

    • Stephen J. Thornton
    Pages 211-223

  19. The Poorly Planned Trajectory of a Slow but Impulsive Apprentice

    • Bruce Vansledright
    Pages 225-235

  20. The Evolution of a Civic Educator

    • Elizabeth Yeager Washington
    Pages 237-245
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Research in social education over the last forty years has broken new ground in such areas as historical understanding, civic education, cultural studies, and curriculum and assessment. This collection is comprised of reflections on the professional trajectories of nineteen leading social studies scholars. Demonstrating that their professional interests have emerged from their autobiographies, the scholars write about their personal influences, professional choices, and contributions. The book reveals how social justice, difference and diversity, and a commitment to the ongoing project of democracy have been central to their work. The chapters in this volume reveal leading social educators’ determined sense of urgency about making the world a better place through their leadership in the field. Each essay provides students, practitioners, and researchers alike with background on the nineteen scholars. Also, the scholars provide lists of their favorite publications as well as the works of other scholars that influenced them. Taken together, the chapters in this volume offer thoughts on the past, present, and future of social studies.

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  • Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

    Christine Woyshner

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