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I hope everyone gets a chance to watch this, it is an essential companion for navigating our emotions and reality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEEDKwzNBw Rethinking Social Studies Education

This article focuses on media literacy and globalization, with the implication that these factors result in cultural homogenization and Eurocentrism. The author states that these processes establish a notion of what is normal, while marginalizing or eliminating the perceived value of possible alternatives. A Eurocentric approach can reduce other cultures to mere caricatures that only [...]

Reviewed by Jill Reimer University of Victoria Wilson et al.’s article Retooling the Social Studies Classroom for the Current Generation focuses on how technology has changed the way in which young people read, communicate and learn.  The authors argue that current teachers need to keep up to date with the fast paced world their students [...]

            I chose toreview Catherine Broom’s article called, “Curriculum in the Age ofGlobalization”, published in the “Canada’sNational Social Studies Journal” (Formerly: The History and Social StudiesTeacher), Volume 43, No. 1, Spring 2010. CatherineBroom is an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. The Journal can be found in the Canadian [...]

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1128116–eleven-oily-questions-for-every-mp In this opinion piece from the Toronto Star, Andrew Nikiforuk (from the Tyee) asks eleven questions of the federal government – and anyone pro-Enbridge/oil sands – that would be great to introduce to a Social Studies classroom for a critical thinking exercise. These thoughtful and piercing questions cut through most of the typical rhetoric [...]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/canadas-oil-sands-not-so-dirty-after-all/article2343985/ Rethinking Social Studies Education

Reviewed by: Kirk MacRae, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada In her article, Bloom (2010) argues that the current social studies curriculum in British Columbia is in need of revision.  This is immediately evident as she attempts to convince the educators, ministry policy makers, and the like whose eyes may grace this article, that the [...]

Article Review: Roberts, Scott L. (2011). Using counterfactual history to enhance students’ historical understanding, The Social Studies, 102:3, 117-123. by Steven Mills In this article Roberts, a grade 8 Social Studies teacher from Georgia, challenges his students to ask historical “what if?” questions and to portray creatively the new histories resulting from these changes. Roberts [...]

Rethinking Social Studies Education

ARTICLE REVIEW: THE THOUGHT EXPERIMENT Zarnowski, Myra. (2009) The Thought Experiment: An Imaginative Way into Civic Literacy. The Social Studies, March/April 2009, 100 (2). Reviewed by Kristin DoumaUniversity of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada The central argument of Zarnowski’s article is that through the use of thought experiments, students can make history relevant to their world [...]