Deliberating Immigration Policy: Locating Instructional Materials within Global and Multicultural Perspectives

Different Drummers: International Perspectives on Multicultural Education

“…The study shed much light on the early efforts in America to achieve social justice through multicultural education. Two recent studies by Camicia (2007Camicia ( , 2009 relied on social studies materials to examine the underlying perspectives related to immigration policy and civic and cultural choices in the current American society.…”

Virtuous Subjects: A Critical Analysis of the Affective Substance of Social Studies Education

“…Similar to how content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge are two falsely distinct sides of the same coin (Segall, 2004), the affective and emotional life is not necessarily distinct from the cognitive nature of learning. From the environment (Cotton, 2006) to Hurricane Katrina (Garrett, 2011), terrorism (Hess & Stoddard, 2007) to Japanese American internment camps (Camicia, 2007), topics that elicit controversy and strong political feelings often define and structure the curriculum of social studies education (Biesta, 2011;Cary, 2001;Helfenbein, 2005;Shinew, 2001). Such topics animate the epistemological bearings of social studies as a field and require a critical perspective that deconstructs the types of affects circulating through social studies classrooms and curriculum.…”

Whose Immigration Story?: Attending to Hidden Messages of Material in Social Studies

“…The third interrelated assumption is that current immigration should not be discussed solely within the geopolitical context of the host country (Camicia, 2007). The notion of "transnational" (Levvitt, 2001;Olmedo, 2004) will have to enter the discussion.…”

“…The state standards tended to adopt a nation-bound approach to immigration, in that they highlighted the contributions of immigrants and the local and national responses to different waves of immigration. A nation-bound approach tends to focus on the contributions of immigration to the national interests of a particular society, while a global perspective portrays immigration as interaction of a human family (Camicia, 2007).…”