Post-Pandemic Social Studies: How COVID-19 Has Changed the World and How We Teach

Contents

Foreword?ix
Joel Westheimer

Preface?xiii

Introduction?1
Wayne Journell

PART I: TEACHING ABOUT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?11

1.??Putting COVID-19 Into Historical Context?13
Catherine Mas

2.??Situating COVID-19 Within the Context of Death and Grief?28
Rebecca C. Christ, Bretton A. Varga, Mark E. Helmsing, and Cathryn van Kessel

3.??How Should We Remember COVID-19? Designing Inquiry for Social?Emotional Learning?41
Carly Muetterties and Holly Wright

4.??Examining COVID-19 with Young Learners: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Design Model Approach?60
Lisa Brown Buchanan, Cara Ward, Tracy Hargrove, Amy Taylor, Maggie Guggenheimer, and Lynn Sikma

5.??Ideology, Information, and Political Action Surrounding COVID-19?81
Christopher H. Clark

6.??The Spatiality of a Pandemic: Deconstructing Social Inequality Through Social Inquiry?94
Sandra J. Schmidt

PART II: COVID-19 AND A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHING AND LEARNING?109

7.??A Hill Made of Sand: COVID-19 and the Myth of American Exceptionalism?111
Wayne Journell

8.??COVID-19 as a Symptom of Another Disease?125
Cathryn van Kessel

9.??The Inclusion of Economic Inequality in the Social Studies Curriculum: Toward an Education for Participatory Readiness?137
Leonel Pérez Expósito and Varenka Servín Arcos

10.???Get Your Knee Off Our Neck!? Historicizing Protests in the Wake of COVID-19?151
Kristen E. Duncan and Amber M. Neal

11.??Anti-Asian Violence Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Social Studies Education?163
Sohyun An and Noreen Naseem Rodríguez

12.??Breathing Life Back Into Social Studies: Lessons from COVID-19?175
Jennifer Hauver

13.??Taking Seriously the Social in Elementary Social Studies?187
Katherina A. Payne and Anna Falkner

14.??Rethinking the American Value of Freedom in the Post?COVID-19 Social Studies Curriculum: An Altruism Perspective?200
Yun-Wen Chan and Ya-Fang Cheng

15.??Global Learning for Global Citizenship Education: The Case of COVID-19?210
Sarah A. Mathews

16.??Teaching Federalism: Investigating Federal vs. State Power in the Wake of a Pandemic?222
Karon LeCompte, Brooke Blevins, and Kevin R. Magill

17.??What Do We Leave Behind? Assessment of Student Learning in Social Studies Post?COVID-19?236
Stephanie van Hover, Michael Gurlea, Tyler Woodward, David Hicks, and David Gerwin

Afterword?251
Tyrone C. Howard

About the Editor and Contributors?255

Index?258