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Toward a Stranger and More Posthuman Social Studies Bretton A. Varga

Toward a Stranger and More Posthuman Social Studies By Bretton A. Varga

Toward a Stranger and More Posthuman Social Studies by Bretton A. Varga


Summary

Challenges the field of social studies education to think differently about the precarious status of the world (climate crisis, racial equity, Indigenous sovereignty). By cultivating a greater sense of attunement to the more-than-human, educators and scholars can foster more ethical ways of teaching, learning, researching, being, and becoming.

Toward a Stranger and More Posthuman Social Studies Summary

Toward a Stranger and More Posthuman Social Studies by Bretton A. Varga

Posthumanism has seen a surge across the humanities and offers a unique perspective, seeking to illuminate the role that more-than-human actors (e.g., affect, artifacts, objects, flora, fauna, other materials) play in the human experience . This book challenges the field of social studies education to think differently about the precarious status of the world (i.e., climate crisis, ongoing fights for racial equity, and Indigenous sovereignty). By cultivating a greater sense of attunement to the more-than-human, educators and scholars can foster more ethical ways of teaching, learning, researching, being, and becoming. In an effort to push the boundaries of what constitutes social studies, chapter authors engage with a wide range of disciplines and offer unique perspectives from various locations across the globe. This volume asks: How can thinking with posthumanism disrupt normative approaches to social studies education and research in ways that promote imaginativeness, speculation, and nonconformity? How can a posthumanist lens be used to interrogate neoliberal, systemic, and oppressive conditions that reproduce and perpetuate in-humanness?

Book Features:

  • A collection of essays that explore the phenomenon of posthuman approaches to social studies scholarship.
  • Contributions by many prominent social studies education scholars representing seven countries-Canada, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
  • A foreword by Boni Wozolek and an afterword by Nathan Snaza, both of who have made significant contributions to critical posthumanism in education.
  • Provocation chapters that push readers' thinking about the various ways that posthumanism connects to teaching and learning social studies.
  • Images of more-than-human entanglements (i.e., artwork, photography, poetry).

About Bretton A. Varga

Bretton A. Varga is an assistant professor of history-social science at California State University, Chico. Timothy Monreal is an assistant professor of learning and instruction at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Rebecca C. Christ is an assistant professor of teaching and learning at Florida International University.

Table of Contents

  • Contents (Tentative)
  • Foreword. Becoming Posthuman Social Studies
  • Introduction. Be(com)ing Strange(r): Toward a Posthuman Social Studies
  • Bretton A. Varga, Timothy Monreal, and Rebecca C. Christ
  • 1. Life Lessons: Posthuman Ideas About Life for an Enlivened Social Studies Education
  • Mark E. Helmsing
  • 2. A Thousand Deaths: Current Events and Racial Reproductions of the Dead and Dying
  • Asilia Franklin-Phipps
  • 3. Unsettling the Social in Social Studies
  • Cathryn van Kessel
  • 4. Toppling the (Hu)Man: Posthumanism and the Mattering of Historical Spaces
  • Francisco A. Medina, Karen Zaino, and Debbie Sonu
  • 5. Lives in/of Things
  • Sandra J. Schmidt
  • 6. Cities as Pedagogues: Materiality in Paris' Public Sphere as a Teacher of Consciousness
  • Avner Segall
  • 7. Mattering the Research
  • 8. Set in Stone?: Social Studies Teacher Candidates' Conceptions of Matter
  • Morgan P. Tate and Amelia H. Wheeler
  • 9. Following for the Community
  • Polina Golovatina-Mora
  • 10. I'm a Monster Now: The Construction of Spacetimemattering Through Intra-Action in Childhood
  • Fernando Guzman-Simon and Alejandra Pacheco-Costa
  • 11. Arboreal Methodologies: The Promise of Getting Lost (With Feminist New Materialism and Indigenous Ontologies) for Social Studies
  • Jayne Osgood and Suzanne Axelsson
  • 12. Into the Sea: A Fictive Speculation on How to Cope at the End of the World
  • Peter M. Nelson
  • 13. Not as Strange as Dying: Reimagining U.S. Social Studies as Place-Based and Decolonialized
  • Janice Kroeger and Christine Widrig
  • 14. Possibilities for Knowing Differently With a More-Than-Human Ladybird-Pedagogue
  • Karen E. Barr and Hannah Seat
  • 15. (In)Separatable: Social Studies With/out the Human
  • Sarah B. Shear
  • 16. The (Self/Re)generating Sacred Energy Called Teotl: Using Nahua Philosophy to Introduce Posthumanist Thinking
  • Timothy Monreal and Jesus Tirado
  • 17. Beading Shkode
  • 18. Re/Membering Ethical Relationality: Re/Telling Stories of Dis/citizenship as Lived
  • Muna Saleh
  • 19. Non-Human Alliances
  • Polina Golovatina-Mora
  • 20. Youth Are Already Queer: Agentive Possibilities Amongst Queer TikTok Creators
  • Sandra J. Schmidt, Eric Estes, and Isabel Gomez
  • 21. Any/bodies: Posthumanism and Economics Education
  • Erin C. Adams
  • 22. Indeterminacy and Strangeness in the Posthuman Classroom: Thinking Toward Possibility
  • Alexandra L. Page
  • 23. Embracing Strangeness, but Not Becoming Strangers
  • Alexander Butler
  • Afterword: Afterward
  • Nathan Snaza
  • Appendix A. Guiding Concepts
  • Endnotes
  • Index
  • About the Editors and Contributors

Additional information

GOR013323602
9780807768266
080776826X
Toward a Stranger and More Posthuman Social Studies by Bretton A. Varga
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Teachers' College Press
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