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While my platform is not large, I need to get something that has been bothering me off my chest! Lately, I have noticed that many news outlets have been discussing the ways history is taught and how white supremacy permeates curriculum. /1

These news outlets tend to interview historians or popular public scholars in the field of Education. While these historians and education scholars may be able to contribute critical knowledge to the conversations around curriculum, social studies (SS), /2

and white supremacy, historians, in many cases, do not or have not worked in public education or with teachers, and popular public scholars in fields like STEM or ELA are often not studying or publishing articles about the history textbooks or curriculum. /3

More importantly, there are scholars and scholarship that has been immersed in this work for a long time. These scholars have not only examined the white supremacy that exists in the curriculum, as teacher educators, they have also looked at the ways SS /4

is taught and offered solutions for the the field to challenge the traditional curriculum. So, while the field of Social Studies Education (SSE) is often ignored, these people have done, are doing, and continue to do the work.
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Thus, I wish more news outlets would reach out to these scholars. Scholars like @DrMandaLizVick, @DrLaGarrettKing, @NaseemRdz, @leilanisabz, @DrKristenDuncan, @ProfaSantiago, @SalLaMaestra, @DrTMP, @DrMunaSaleh, @gjladson, @SBShear, Dr. Chris Busey, etc. /6

I know I’m probably leaving someone out, but these scholars look at race, hard histories, and colonialism in the SS curriculum. There is also scholarship that looks at white supremacy and its role in the economics curriculum from @SSMethods and @ECA_Twin. /7

Scholarship from @amhawkman looks at whiteness in SSE and LGBTQ issues (often excluded from the curriculum b/c of white male patriarchy). I could go on! I just wanted to put this out in the universe b/c it’s frustrating to see the field of SSE be ignored!