Critical Race Theory Perspectives on the Social Studies: The Profession, Policies, and Curriculum

by Gloria Ladson-Billings (Editor)

Fourteen American and Canadian academics contribute 13 chapters placing race at the center of an understanding of social studies practices in education. They consider ways the curriculum, profession, policies, and the current embrace of technology conform to a racial script which makes race invisible. By using critical race theory for their analyses, they prevent readers from turning to other factors to explain the ongoing inequities in schools and the society, and direct educators to recognize the gap between what is taught in the classroom and the real lives of the students attending schools. No subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Genres: Education

300 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Whitney · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is becoming dated, but it still had a lot of good information. It wasn't quite what I was looking for though. It's aim is mostly to explain how and why most social studies class today fail miserably to teach about race and racism and why that is a problem. I'm already convinced of that and what I really wanted was concrete teaching suggestions for how to approach social studies from the perspective of critical race theory. There were some suggestions, for sure, but many were aimed at changing how pre-service teachers are taught and that doesn't apply to me.