Questions of Disbelief: Can We Transform the Situation? Or Is Rome Burning?

Abstract

Out of diminishing democratic ideals upon which this country was founded due to the blurring of the governmental branches by the current administration, one of the most worrisome is the piece of NCLB (2001) that has decreased the teaching of social studies in the early childhood/elementary curriculum. It appears there is a plan for failure for marginalized children that might open the doors to privatize public education. The planned deficit of social studies knowledge to problem solve and to think critically is not equal, nor just. To have a socially just tomorrow, social studies matters for our social studies students today.

Citation

Christensen, L.M. (2007), "Questions of Disbelief: Can We Transform the Situation? Or Is Rome Burning?", Social Studies Research and Practice, Vol. 2 No. 3, pp. 518-520. https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-03-2007-B0019