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Sarah B Shear

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Author, Editor, Production Manager

Affiliation:
University of Washington-Bothell

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Biography


Sarah B. Shear, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Social Studies and Multicultural Education at the University of Washington-Bothell. Dr. Shear works with collaborators to examine K-12 social studies curriculum within Indigenous contexts, as well as race and settler colonialism in teacher education, popular media, and qualitative methodologies. As a member of the Turtle Island Social Studies Collective, Dr. Shear is committed to collective action to combat oppression in P-20 education and academia. Dr. Shear and her colleagues present together at several conferences, including the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies (CUFA-NCSS), American Educational Research Association (AERA), International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), and Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). Dr. Shear is the co-editor of two social studies texts, (Re)Imagining Elementary Social Studies: A Controversial Issues Reader and Marking the “Invisible”: Articulating Whiteness in Social Studies Education.