Tadashi Dozono is Assistant Professor of History/Social Science Education at California State University Channel Islands.

"Discipline Problems is an ethnographic study that provides astonishing philosophical insights about the relationship between the curricular foundations of U.S. schooling, discipline, and the state. In this work, students deemed 'troublemakers' in high school history classes are not the problem to be studied but instead subjects offering incisive social analyses about the problems of an impoverished curriculum—indeed, an American curriculum that fails to mirror the complexity of their worlds. This book offers novel contributions to educational philosophy, critical pedagogy, curriculum studies, and more." (Jarvis R. Givens, author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching)

• Introduction. It's a Discipline Problem  Chapter 1. Troubling the School's Exam and Curriculum: "They Used to Think of Me as a Lesser Being" Chapter 2. Troubling Historical Thinking: Were the Ancient Egyptians Black?  Chapter 3. Troubling the State Itself: Reading the World with Suspicion and Paranoia  Not Conclusions, but Portals. A Dialectical Pedagogy of Ethics  NotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Tadashi Dozono is Assistant Professor of History/Social Science Education at California State University Channel Islands.

"Discipline Problems is an ethnographic study that provides astonishing philosophical insights about the relationship between the curricular foundations of U.S. schooling, discipline, and the state. In this work, students deemed 'troublemakers' in high school history classes are not the problem to be studied but instead subjects offering incisive social analyses about the problems of an impoverished curriculum—indeed, an American curriculum that fails to mirror the complexity of their worlds. This book offers novel contributions to educational philosophy, critical pedagogy, curriculum studies, and more." (Jarvis R. Givens, author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching)

• Introduction. It's a Discipline Problem  Chapter 1. Troubling the School's Exam and Curriculum: "They Used to Think of Me as a Lesser Being" Chapter 2. Troubling Historical Thinking: Were the Ancient Egyptians Black?  Chapter 3. Troubling the State Itself: Reading the World with Suspicion and Paranoia  Not Conclusions, but Portals. A Dialectical Pedagogy of Ethics  NotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Tadashi Dozono is Assistant Professor of History/Social Science Education at California State University Channel Islands.

"Discipline Problems is an ethnographic study that provides astonishing philosophical insights about the relationship between the curricular foundations of U.S. schooling, discipline, and the state. In this work, students deemed 'troublemakers' in high school history classes are not the problem to be studied but instead subjects offering incisive social analyses about the problems of an impoverished curriculum—indeed, an American curriculum that fails to mirror the complexity of their worlds. This book offers novel contributions to educational philosophy, critical pedagogy, curriculum studies, and more." (Jarvis R. Givens, author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching)

• Introduction. It's a Discipline Problem  Chapter 1. Troubling the School's Exam and Curriculum: "They Used to Think of Me as a Lesser Being" Chapter 2. Troubling Historical Thinking: Were the Ancient Egyptians Black?  Chapter 3. Troubling the State Itself: Reading the World with Suspicion and Paranoia  Not Conclusions, but Portals. A Dialectical Pedagogy of Ethics  NotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments