Transformative Challenges to the Social Science Disciplines: Implications for Social Studies Teaching and Learning

• Autores: James A. Banks
• Localización: Theory and research in social education, ISSN 0093-3104, Vol. 23, Nº 1, 1995, págs. 2-20
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The author contends that the social studies projects of the 1960s and 1970s reflected institutionalized mainstream academic knowledge in the social sciences which assumes that knowledge is neutral, objective, and universal. Within the last two decades, transformative knowledge created by scholars of color and feminist scholars has challenged the social science disciplines and some of their major assumptions and tenets. Transformative scholars argue that knowledge is neither universal nor neutral but reflects human interests, the cultures of social scientists, and the power relationships within society. The author recommends that the gap between the transformations occurring within the social science disciplines and the way that the social studies is taught in the school be closed.