Challenging Gender Bias through a Transformative High School Social Studies Curriculum

Bibliographic Data

ID11071103
AuthorsAlan Singer, Alan J Singer (Hofstra University, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume23
Issue3
Pages234-259
Publication date1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory & Research in Social Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0093-3104 • E-ISSN: 2163-1654
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00933104.1995.10505756
OpenAlexW1985184444
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

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