Learning to be in the World with Others

Difficult Knowledge and Social Studies Education

H. James Garrett

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781433132384
• eBook ISBN:
  9781433139666
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

In this book, H. James Garrett inquires into the processes of learning about the social world, populated as it often is with bewildering instances of loss, violence, and upheaval. In such learning, interactions invite and enliven our passionate responses, or prompt us to avoid them. Interpreting and working with these often emotional reactions is critical to social studies education and developing strategies for individuals to participate in democracy. Garrett illustrates ways that learning about the world does not occur in absence of our intimate relations to knowledge, the way learning sometimes feels like our undoing, and how new knowledge can feel more like a burden than an advantage.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Permissions
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Difficult Knowledge, Psychoanalysis, and Social Studies Education
• Chapter 2. Difficult Knowledge: Encounters with Social Trauma in Pedagogy
• Chapter 3. Traces in Narratives About Knowledge: Evidence, Controversy and Difficult Knowledge
• Chapter 4. Movements of Difficult Knowledge
• Chapter 5. The Presence of History and Learning to Teach: Novel Reading in Social Studies Education
• Chapter 6. Questions and Perspectives in Social Studies Education
• Index
• Studies in Criticality