Challenging Gender Bias through a Transformative High School Social Studies Curriculum

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11071103
AutoresAlan Singer, Alan J Singer (Hofstra University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen23
Número3
Páginas234-259
Fecha de publicación1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTheory & Research in Social Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0093-3104 • E-ISSN: 2163-1654
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00933104.1995.10505756
OpenAlexW1985184444
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas19

This article reports on an effort to use a transformative curriculum in 11th grade United States history classes to promote student examination of bias in contemporary American society and to encourage student reflection on and reconsideration of personal views about gender. As part of a unit on the struggle for equality in post-World War II United States, students created and then discussed cartoon dialogues depicting two teenage women. An analysis of these cartoon dialogues illustrates some of the problems teachers face when they assume that students are making the intellectual connections they expect. It also underscores the social positionality of student understanding. Suggestions for helping students connect academic knowledge to their understanding of the world in which they live are included

Curriculum · Face (sociological concept · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Social science · Social studies · Sociology · Transformative learning · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology