International Perspectives on Social Studies Education

This series investigates how social studies classrooms across the world shape, and are shaped by debates over democracy, citizenship, identity, and justice. Rather than presenting international work as a collection of unrelated case studies, the series is organized around three lenses that provide coherence and analytic depth. The first lens, comparative civic formations, examines how nations use social studies education to define citizenship and negotiate diversity. The second lens, transnational themes and pedagogies, explores issues that cross borders, such as teaching controversial topics, addressing migration, or navigating digital and civic life. The third lens, contesting coloniality and structural inequality, focuses on how colonial legacies, racial hierarchies, and other power structures are reproduced or challenged through curriculum and instruction. These lenses build on foundational scholarship in citizenship and global education and respond to growing research on difficult histories, human rights, migration, and social justice. A central feature of the series is to bring together studies that are currently dispersed across journals and edited collections, with particular attention to scholarship from non-English speaking regions and the Global South. By creating a sustained and grounded platform, the series seeks to reshape international conversations about the purposes and possibilities of social studies education.