Keith C. Barton
@kcbarton.bsky.social
Professor at Indiana University. History education, social studies, civic education. Warning: feed may include photos of my fabulous granddaughters. Justiceandharmony.com
Free open access book! Link in comments. #socialstudies #peaceeducation #socialeducation #globaleducation
June 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Free open access book! Link in comments. #socialstudies #peaceeducation #socialeducation #globaleducation
National History Day has been eliminated.
April 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
National History Day has been eliminated.
Li-Ching Ho and I just published this article on #hope and #historyteaching in the journal of the New South Wales History Teachers Association. DM for a higher-res version. #SSChat #iteachsocialstudies
March 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Li-Ching Ho and I just published this article on #hope and #historyteaching in the journal of the New South Wales History Teachers Association. DM for a higher-res version. #SSChat #iteachsocialstudies
Old stuff in Ireland
March 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Old stuff in Ireland
Teachers and teacher-educators who are looking for hope in these troubled times might be interested in this webinar
@liching22.bsky.social and I are doing next week on teaching for #hope. Everyone is welcome to join. @edusky.bsky.social
#socialstudies #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #civiceducation
@liching22.bsky.social and I are doing next week on teaching for #hope. Everyone is welcome to join. @edusky.bsky.social
#socialstudies #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #civiceducation
January 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Teachers and teacher-educators who are looking for hope in these troubled times might be interested in this webinar
@liching22.bsky.social and I are doing next week on teaching for #hope. Everyone is welcome to join. @edusky.bsky.social
#socialstudies #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #civiceducation
@liching22.bsky.social and I are doing next week on teaching for #hope. Everyone is welcome to join. @edusky.bsky.social
#socialstudies #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #civiceducation
A cold day for activism at Indiana University on this 60th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, but oppression knows no weather, and neither can resistance.
December 6, 2024 at 5:51 PM
A cold day for activism at Indiana University on this 60th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, but oppression knows no weather, and neither can resistance.
Democracy and Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Democracy and Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
If you’re at #NCSS2024 you should go to the Democracy and Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. There are some powerful works of art, some of them disturbing.
November 21, 2024 at 7:58 PM
If you’re at #NCSS2024 you should go to the Democracy and Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. There are some powerful works of art, some of them disturbing.
Kristen Duncan with important insights into civic education for Black youth. Catch her newest work at #NCSS24 #NCSS2024 this week @ncssnetwork.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Kristen Duncan with important insights into civic education for Black youth. Catch her newest work at #NCSS24 #NCSS2024 this week @ncssnetwork.bsky.social
A nation is not saved by wars but “by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.”
November 20, 2024 at 1:29 AM
A nation is not saved by wars but “by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.”
We must provide students a sense of hope--a belief that a better world is possible, and knowledge of how human action can make a difference. In our article in the latest Social Education, Li-Ching Ho and I describe what that might look like. #socialstudies #sschat (DM me if you don’t have access.)
November 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
We must provide students a sense of hope--a belief that a better world is possible, and knowledge of how human action can make a difference. In our article in the latest Social Education, Li-Ching Ho and I describe what that might look like. #socialstudies #sschat (DM me if you don’t have access.)
“We can work together to shed the nationalism and xenophobia that are holding humanity back from participating in a world community that values all human life.” #socialstudies #sschat Catch Kathryn Engebretson next week at the Boston conference of @ncssnetwork.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 9:45 PM
“We can work together to shed the nationalism and xenophobia that are holding humanity back from participating in a world community that values all human life.” #socialstudies #sschat Catch Kathryn Engebretson next week at the Boston conference of @ncssnetwork.bsky.social
When I pull out the University of Ulster mug, it means it’s time for some serious writing about #historyeducation
November 16, 2024 at 2:20 PM
When I pull out the University of Ulster mug, it means it’s time for some serious writing about #historyeducation
I fear that young people today may have a distorted notion of what boxers should look like.
November 16, 2024 at 11:49 AM
I fear that young people today may have a distorted notion of what boxers should look like.
Only briefly during a joint session last year.
November 16, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Only briefly during a joint session last year.
Civics linked to the nation-state will always be a tool of oppression; only an anarchist politics and civics can lead us to a more humane, life-affirming society (Alex Hollett) #sschat #socialstudies #anarchism
November 15, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Civics linked to the nation-state will always be a tool of oppression; only an anarchist politics and civics can lead us to a more humane, life-affirming society (Alex Hollett) #sschat #socialstudies #anarchism
King and Williams call for racial healing through a history truth, education, and reconciliation commission.
November 11, 2024 at 11:58 PM
King and Williams call for racial healing through a history truth, education, and reconciliation commission.
I don’t have a cat anymore. But here’s the cat I used to have, until she passed away after a nice long life. Mr. Potatohead for scale.
November 10, 2024 at 9:14 PM
I don’t have a cat anymore. But here’s the cat I used to have, until she passed away after a nice long life. Mr. Potatohead for scale.