Civics Education in Contentious Times: Working with Teachers to Create Locally-Specific Curricula in a Post-Truth World is a longitudinal research study that focuses on the collaboration between a researcher and elementary teachers to design and implement locally-specific civics curriculum in a predominately Latinx-serving Title I school. William Toledo details how the design team wrote and taught this curricular unit in the midst of contentious socio-political contexts and how themes from these greater contexts entered classrooms, along with proposing conceptual frameworks for teaching civic perspective-taking in these instances.
List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1: Shifting Contexts
Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Civic-Perspective Taking
Chapter 3: If Donald Trump Doesnt Like Our School, is He Going to Knock it
Down?: Students Triumphs and Challenges in Learning Civics
Chapter 4: Contextually-Specific Knowledge: How Teachers Designed and Taught
this Unit
Chapter 5: Where Do We Go From Here?: Implications for Future Teaching and
Research
Afterword
References
About the Author
William Toledo is assistant professor of elementary social studies education in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Reno.
