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In this collection, scholars from the United States, Canada, and Australia examine the concepts of villainification and antivillainification in social studies curriculum and popular culture, as well as within broader sociocultural contexts. Villainification is the process of identifying an individual or a small group of individuals as the sole source of a larger evil. Antivillainification considers the messy space in between individual and group culpability in order to help students develop a sense of responsibility to each other as humans in communities on this planet. Chapter authors examine topics related to U.S. politics, financial education, Holocaust education, difficult histories, apocalypse fiction, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, technology use, LGBTQ school experiences, rape culture, geographies of invasion, and the female body. Taken together, these inquiries into villainification offer thoughtful and powerful insights for teaching about historical wrongdoing in more nuanced ways, addressing the responsibility we all have to create a better world. Book Features: Pushes the field of social studies to develop a more nuanced understanding of the villains of the past and present. Invites educators to become more thoughtful about not only curriculum but also the world around us. Helps readers to more deeply understand how easily forms of banal evil can touch our lives within and beyond the classroom, and what we might do about it. Examines how systemic forces can influence “average” individuals to cause or contribute to great societal harm. Includes teacher-friendly engagements with theory, using examples from middle and high school classrooms. Offers a wide range of contexts related to social studies education, including civics, economics, geography, and history.

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Author:   Cathryn van Kessel ,  Kimberly Edmondson ,  Michalinos Zembylas ,  Wayne Journell
Publisher:   Teachers' College Press
Imprint:   Teachers' College Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780807769683

ISBN 10:   0807769681
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   26 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents Foreword: The Problem of Villainification  Michalinos Zembylas  vii Acknowledgments  xi Introduction  1 Cathryn van Kessel and Kimberly Edmondson PART I: VILLAINIFICATION AND SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM 1.  Heroification, Villainification, and Political Polarization: Implications for Thinking Politically About U.S. Politics  13 WayneJournell 2.  ""Incapable, Uninterested, and Ineffective""?: Locating Villainification Narratives in Financial Education  29 ErinC. Adams 3.  Will the Real Villain Please Stand Up?: Holocaust Education and Its Hidden Transgressors  45 RebeccaC. Christ, Brandon Haas, and Oren Baruch Stier 4.  Removing the Binaries in History Curricula and Teacher Education: Difficult-ishas an Antidote to Villainification and Its Partner, ""Difficult Histories""  63 Brittany Jones PART II: VILLAINIFICATION LESSONS FROM POPULAR CULTURE 5.  Subverting the Villain Trope in Apocalyptic Fiction: Survivance in MoonoftheCrustedSnow  79 Kimberly Edmondson and Keri Helgren 6.  ""Hang On, So That Thing's a Loki Too?"": Mimetic Materialities, Variants, and Villainy  95 BrettonA. Varga and ErinC. Adams 7.  Wanda the Villain?: How WandaVisionCan Aid Discussions About Enslavement and Anti-Black Racism  111 Danelle Adeniji, Melissa McQueen, and Cathryn van Kessel PART III: SOCIOCULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF VILLAINIFICATION NARRATIVES 8.  Can Technology Be Evil?: Heroes, Villains, and the Banality of Technology  127 RyanM. Smits and DanielG. Krutka 9.  Identifying the Villain: Antivillainification, Social Studies, and LGBTQ Individuals  145 Heather P. Abrahamson 10.  Anti-Complicity Education: Combating Supervillains and Lesser Villains in Contemporary Rape Culture  161 AmandaM.E. Thomson 11.  Placial Villains: Naming, Memorial Geographies of Invasion, and the Work of Social Studies  181 Bryan Smith 12.  Horses, Heretics, and Madame Déficit: The Historical Villainification of the Female Body  197 Andrew Thomson Concluding Thoughts  213 Cathryn van Kessel and Kimberly Edmondson About the Editors and Contributors  215 Index  219"

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Cathryn van Kessel is an associate professor of curriculum studies at Texas Christian University and a former secondary social studies and Latin teacher from Canada. Kimberly Edmondson is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta and a high school social studies teacher in Alberta, Canada.

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