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We shouldn’t pretend neutrality in the face of injustice

Dangerously Irrelevant

Following up on my previous post , I’m going to share a fantastic blog post from Michael Kaechele : I have grown weary of the call to avoid controversial topics and stay neutral. Educators should help students understand how oppressors justified their actions in history without giving credit to their arguments. Related Posts.

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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment. 6; Love, 2019).