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Social Studies for Immigrant Children and Youth: Centering Students' Knowledge and Experiences for the Classroom

Social Studies for Immigrant Children and Youth: Centering Students' Knowledge and Experiences for the Classroom

Kim, Yeji
Salinas, Cinthia

Paperback

Series: Research and Practice in Social Studies

Bilingual EducationTeaching Instruction

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 25, 2026

ISBN10: 0807784818
ISBN13: 9780807784815
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: Nov 25 2026
Pages: 240
Language: English
How can social studies education move beyond deficit-oriented and assimilationist views of immigrant students and instead recognize them as producers of civic knowledge? This book offers a research-based roadmap for creating social studies classrooms that affirm and draw on immigrant students' experiences and knowledge as essential resources for teaching and learning.

As classrooms across the United States become increasingly shaped by migration, multilingualism, and transnationalism, traditional approaches to social studies remain rooted in U.S.-centric, white-centric, monolingual, and assimilationist frameworks. These approaches not only marginalize immigrant students' identities and lives, but also limit what counts as civic knowledge and participation.

Bringing together leading scholars in social studies education and drawing on cutting-edge research and classroom-based examples, this volume bridges theory and practice by offering research-informed, practitioner-ready approaches for K-12 classrooms and teacher education. Chapters center diverse immigrant youth, including Latine, Asian, African, and Arab communities, showing how teachers and teacher educators can design social studies classrooms that honor and build on students' lived realities, everyday experiences, and civic practices.

In a political climate marked by intensifying anti-immigrant rhetoric and contested understandings of citizenship, this book provides educators with the tools, frameworks, and practical examples needed to create classrooms that are not only inclusive and relevant, but transformative, centering immigrant students' ways of knowing and being as foundational to social studies.

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