Keith C. Barton

Coming in 2026🤞: Amy and I explore how we're recentering learning in our methods classes through reading, writing, and discussion--and doing away with digital technology.

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Free publication (link in comments) supports educators teaching global citizenship education from Asia-Pacific perspectives, through concrete activities, stories, cases, examples, and instructional strategies. ##sschat #gce #globalcitizenshipeducation

If you're at the National Council for the Social Studies, come to Li-Ching Ho's and my presentation on teaching for hope! Saturday, Dec. 6, Room 201. #sschat #socialstudies #teachingsocialstudies @socialstudies.org

Great opportunity for high school social studies teachers in the United States! #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #historyteacher

Like lamb and Bordeaux, Barton & Ho pair well with Pace.

Episode 1_Critical Harmony: A Pathway to Social Justice and Global Citizenship Education_Insights from Keith Barton and Li-Ching Ho Podcast Episode · Conversations 4 Citizenship · 03/21/2024 · 59m

If you like the @visionsofed.bsky.social podcast in which @alexandercuenca.bsky.social and I discuss my new book with Elizabeth Washington, you'll also like this @c4cpodcast.bsky.social with @liching22.bsky.social and myself. Check out their whole series! Let me know if you can't access it. #sschat

It’s going to be real tough to discuss Japanese American internment without saying something negative.

All national parks now have this sign. Sanitizing crimes and erasing memory is one more step towards a white supremacist version of history.

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Free open access book! Link in comments. #socialstudies #peaceeducation #socialeducation #globaleducation

Cuts at the NSF decimate research team at IU For researchers at IU, cuts at the National Science Foundation means not only the end of their projects but sometimes the end of their jobs.

In my department

"Rebuilding a Democracy in Ruins," including chapters by LaGarrett King and Richard Williams, Li-Ching Ho Tricia Seow and Xian Hui Tan, Jennifer Hauver, Kristen Duncan, Jillian Carter Ford, Kathryn Ellerhoff Engebretson, and Alexandria Hollett

National History Day has been eliminated.

Executive director: Head Start office abruptly shut down The Region 5 office of Head Start was abruptly closed and all federal staff were placed on administrative leave until June without warning, according to the Michigan Head Start Association.

Head Start has been shut down in the Midwest (probably elsewhere too).

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Li-Ching Ho and I just published this article on #hope and #historyteaching in the journal of the New South Wales History Teachers Association. DM for a higher-res version. #SSChat #iteachsocialstudies

Old stuff in Ireland

But as teachers, we have a special obligation to stand up for what is right, because more than any other profession, we influence the future. We must take responsibility for the face of the world.

But we might get in trouble! Yes, we might. Many people have gotten in trouble for standing up for what is right. It’s likely to happen again, because we are living through a horrible and dangerous moment in our nation’s history.

“As teachers, we make sure that students learn about all people; we make sure that they see all people as deserving of dignity, respect, and rights; we don’t discriminate in our classrooms—that’s not what we do.” We need to say it, practice it, own it.

What we can do is act as the professionals we are and state our principles clearly and confidently:

But what if someone complains!? Yes, what if? If someone complains about these things—and they might—they are not coming from a place of generosity or humanity or democracy. We probably won’t be able to change their minds, but that’s not our job.

Every action we take or fail to take sends a message, so we must make sure we are sending messages that promote the humanity of all people.

If students never see LGBTQ+ people, or immigrants, or Asian Americans in our books and posters, they will rightfully conclude that we think these people are not important enough to care about.

It’s not enough that we avoid demeaning or stereotypical images, as important as that it, because the messages we send by what we leave out are as important as those we include.

So too for our walls: Our posters must show workers striking and minorities marching and same-sex couples kissing and present-day Native people governing and people in less economically developed countries teaching and laughing and inventing.

(And of course, these books must portray them in respectful and dignified ways, as knowledgeable, insightful, and concerned people who take responsibility for their own lives and who work for the common good.)

These must be stories that both reflect the backgrounds of our students and that expand their understanding and concern to people who may be very different than they are.