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• Equity: The principle of fairness, which demands that what the most privileged are able to provide to their children (and receive for themselves) must be the standard for all, and that there must be a redressing and repairing of historical and embedded injustices. Activism: The principle of agency, which involves a full participation, preparing stu...
• The critical approach stresses that history must help students and citizens create a more just society.
• If we want to change the world for the better, history teachers must help students understand how they can think like a historian, a democratic citizen, and an activist.
• history if it involved giving them a chance to interpret and make sense of the past, especially in relation to social identities and power over time.
• Unlike the 1619 Project or Hamilton, many history classrooms rarely focus on race and other social identities, and how those social identities have had a major role in shaping our current society (Au, 2009; Epstein, 2000, 2009; King, 2017; King & Brown, 2014). When they do focus on race, it is typically only in a handful of units, such as slavery a...