States of Denial: What Social Studies Curriculum Documents Don't Say about Poverty

Autor/inn/en	Brillinger, Matthew; Soroko, Agata
Titel	States of Denial: What Social Studies Curriculum Documents Don't Say about Poverty
Quelle	In: Social Education, 86 (2022) 1, S.22-33 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7724
Schlagwörter	Social Studies; Course Content; Poverty; United States History; Curriculum; State Standards; Racial Discrimination; Social Discrimination; Social Justice + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gemeinschaftskunde; Kursprogramm; Armut; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Racial bias; Rassismus; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Abstract	This article explores the extent to which official social studies curriculum documents acknowledge difficult questions raised by the persistence of poverty in the United States. As it turns out, just as some parts of social studies curricula tell distorted stories about U.S. history, other parts tell misleading stories about the nation's present and future economic status quo. Nowhere is this more evident than when it comes to the stories social studies curricula tell about people who are poor. Data for this article comes from a large-scale, bi-national study into how American and Canadian high school teachers educate students about the causes and consequences of economic inequality. The key finding is that poverty, despite its prevalence in the United States, rarely features in social studies curricula. In fact, 20 states do not mention poverty even once in their social studies curriculum framework documents. The authors present a composite curriculum framework that brings together content standards from various state curricula, the goal being to imagine a more comprehensive poverty curriculum that looks at structural-level analyses of poverty. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01