Hot Button: Teaching Sensitive Social Studies Content: Teaching Sensitive Social Studies Content (Thought Leadership)

King, Bart, Calabria, Giacomo

ISBN 10: 142366132X / ISBN 13: 9781423661320

Published by Gibbs Smith (edition )

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It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hot Button: Teaching Sensitive Social Studies Content: Teaching Sensitive Social Studies Content (Thought Leadership)
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith (edition )
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 142366132X
• ISBN 13: 9781423661320
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A book that explores the delicacy and critical importance of getting history right, and teaching it in an age-appropriate way in the classroom, every time.

Hot Button: Teaching Sensitive Social Studies Content explores the difficulty, delicacy, and ethical obligations of teaching accurate history to all students in a highly charged political environment. Featuring contributions from distinguished and award-winning educators including Alysha Butler, Gerardo Muņoz, and Nicole Butler-Hooton, this book will change the way our teachers and educators work. (Edited by Giacomo Calabria and Bart King.)

About the Author

Bart King is a longtime teacher who has written more than twenty-eight books for adults and younger readers, including An Architectural Guidebook to Portland, Time Travel Inn, and The Big Book of Spy Stuff. His books for Gibbs Smith alone have sold more than 830,000 copies combined. He has won awards from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association, and is also the winner of the Bulwer Lytton Writing Contest's "Vile Pun" award. He lives in Silverton, Oregon.
Giacomo Calabria is an award-winning educator, a scholar with Humanities New York, and an author whose works include one play, two novels, various book chapters, and more than 200 published articles. His writing has been featured on BBC America, Business Insider, CNN Money, Folger Magazine, The Huffington Post, Politico Magazine, Reader's Digest, Slate, WAMC's The Roundtable, and Princeton University's Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, among others. He lives in Albany, New York.