Teaching Women's History - Breaking Barriers and Undoing Male Centrism in K-12 Social Studies

Teaching Women-s History: Breaking Barriers and Undoing Male Centrism in K-12 Social Studies challenges and guides K-12 history teachers to incorporate comprehensive and diverse women-s history into every region and era of their history curriculum.

Providing a wealth of practical examples, ideas, and lesson plans - all backed by scholarly research - for secondary and middle school classes, this book demonstrates how teachers can weave women-s history into their curriculum today. It breaks down how history is taught currently, how teachers are prepared, and what expectations are set in state standards and textbooks and then shows how teachers can use pedagogical approaches to better incorporate women-s voices into each of these realms. Each chapter explores a major barrier to teaching an inclusive history and how to overcome it, and every chapter ends with an inquiry-based lesson plan on women or using women''s sources which stands counter to the way curriculum is tradit