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Certificate Course
This certificate course is online and asynchronous. It follows Remedial Herstory Project founder, Kelsie Brook Eckert's book, Teaching Women's History: Breaking Barriers and Undoing Male Centrism in K-12 Social Studies. The course builds on the book, engages students in reading the scholarship themselves, and reflecting on the strategies and ideas proposed in a professional forum. Teaching Women's History and Women & Power by Mary Beard are required reading for the course. Links to the books are provided.
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 traditionally taught, a case in point that tasks readers to realize how women have been integral to every period of history.
With expert guidance from an award-winning social studies teacher, this guidebook will be important reading for middle and high school history educators. It will also be beneficial to preservice teachers, particularly within Social Studies Education and Gender Studies.