Social Studies Education in Latin America: Critical Perspectives from the Global South - Paperback

by Sebastián Plá (Editor), E. Wayne Ross (Editor)

This book offers a path forward, for the growing collaboration in social studies education between Global North and South educators, practitioners, and researchers. In this volume, leading critical social studies education researchers from Latin America explore the constant presence of colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and state violence. Chapter contributors represent a large part of the continent and offer perspectives on a wide range of topics, including recent history and memory, cultural dimensions of social studies education, and comparative studies among Latin American countries.

By bringing together this critical work in one volume, the book fosters conversation across geographic regions to transcend the national contexts for which these analyses are generally produced. This collection provides insights into issues of curriculum, teaching, teacher education, and research in the region and will be of interest to readers both familiar with and new to research on social studies, history, citizenship, and geography education in Latin America.

Author Biography

Sebastián Plá is Senior Researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

E. Wayne Ross is Professor in Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia