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Selecting History

What Elementary Educators Say about Their Social Studies Textbook

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Education is not neutral. As McLaren (1989) serves to remind us, schools are contested spaces where social, economic, and curricular inequities exist, often to the detriment of student learning. The idealistic notion of education for education’s sake runs counter to a more insidious, more layered educational construct that promotes the prominent while dismissing the marginalized.

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  1. Timothy Lintner
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  1. Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, USA

    Heather Hickman

  2. Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, USA

    Brad J. Porfilio

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Lintner, T., Macphee, D. (2012). Selecting History. In: Hickman, H., Porfilio, B.J. (eds) The New Politics of the Textbook. Constructing Knowledge, vol 2. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-930-5_14

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