Problematizing the present and possibilizing the future : designing a critical historiography "history of the present" framework for social studies education.

This dissertation studied the construction and implementation of a ‘history of the present’ curricular framework for critical historical analysis in social studies classrooms using a Design-Based Research methodology with a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach and an embedded multiple case study. By drawing on various approaches to critical historiography, including genealogy and historical materialism, this framework offers teachers suggestions to critically (re)consider how they approach Centering, Sourcing, Scaling, and Narrativizing within their curriculum and engage students in history as an interpretive field with a diversity of epistemological approaches and theoretical underpinnings. Approaching history in this way is intended to support teachers (and students) in interrogating and problematizing historical and contemporary antagonisms to develop a potentially transformative possibilizing stance toward future social action. This study includes findings from the development of this curricular framework and its initial implementation in K-12 classrooms by a design team of veteran social studies educators and has significant implications for teacher education and history classrooms.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Grantor

Baylor University.

Year dc:date.issued

2025

Author dc:creator

• Harrelson Magill, Liz (Elizabeth), 1986-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Nichols, T. Philip.

• Social studies education.
• History education.
• Historiography.
• Critical education.

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Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/2104/13752

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:baylor-ir.tdl.org:2104/13752