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REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Shear, S.B. (In progress). “Destiny” revisited: Inclusions and erasures of Indigeneity in K-12 U.S. history standards, 10 years later. 

Turtle Island Social Studies Collective. (In progress). Realizing rematriation in social studies education.

Oto, R., & Shear, S.B. (In progress). The canon of civics education: Troubling the logics of liberalism in social studies civics standards.

Shear, S.B., Ward, A., Christ, R.C., & Kuby, C.R. (Under review). Entanglements with(in) the review(er) machine: How can we (re)view if we are b(l)ind(ed)?

Shukla, S.Y., Thompson, F.A., & Shear, S.B. (2025). Commitments to doing differently: Paradigm shifts necessary for critical educational psychology research. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 80, 1-7.

Hawkman, A.M., Rodríguez, N.N., Shear, S.B., & Perkins, A. (2024). The greatest lie(s) ever told: Rush Limbaugh and the white supremacist blueprint in middle grades historical fiction. Theory & Research in Social Education, 52(1), 33-65.

Varga, B.A. & Shear, S.B. (2024). Flows of anti-colonialism: (Re)Configurations and emplotments of more-than-witness(es/ing) in the an(thropo/glo)cene. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 21(2), 154-175. 

Shear, S.B. & Hawkman, A.M. (2023). One class is not enough: Learnings from a critical race media literacy course for elementary teacher education. Multicultural Perspectives, 25(1), 21-29. 

Christ, R.C., Kuby, C.R., Shear, S.B., & Ward, A. (2022). (Re)encountering A Thousand Plateaus: Producing 1000 trail(ing)s. Arts and Humanities in Public Education, 21(1), 40-58.

Sabzalian, L., Shear, S.B., & Snyder, J. (2021). Standardizing Indigenous erasure: A TribalCrit and QuantCrit analysis of K-12 U.S. civics and government standards. Theory & Research in Social Education, 49(3), 321-359.

Schroeder, S., Murray-Everett, N., Gates, J., & Shear, S.B. (2021). Informing, transforming, inquiring: Approaches to elementary social studies in methods course syllabi. Journal of Social Studies Research, 45(2), 102-117.

Buchanan, L.B., Tschida, C., Bellows, E., & Shear, S.B. (2020). Positioning children’s literature to confront the persistent avoidance of LGBTQ topics among elementary preservice teachers. Journal of Social Studies Research, 44, 169-184.

Shear, S.B., & Krutka, D. (2019). Confronting settler colonialism: Theoretical and methodological questions about social studies research. Theory & Research in Social Education, 47, 29-51.

Turtle Island Social Studies Collective. (2019). Beyond Pocahontas: Learning from Indigenous women changemakers. Social Studies & The Young Learner, 31(3), 7-13.

Shear, S.B. (2018). Teaching and learning using Indigenous-made films. Social Studies Journal, 38(2), 20-29.

Shear, S.B., Sabzalian, L., & Buchanan, L.B. (2018). Affirming Indigenous sovereignty: A civics inquiry. Social Studies & The Young Learner, 31, 12-18.

Ward, A., Christ, R.C., Kuby, C.R., & Shear, S.B. (2018). Thinking with Klosterman’s razor: Diffracting ‘reviewer 2’ and research wrongness. Knowledge Cultures, 6(2), 28-50.

Shear, S.B. (2016). Does critical theory have a place in social studies research? A commentary. Journal of Social Studies Research, 40(3), 229-231.

Kuby, C.R., Christ, R.C, Holloway, N., Mulligan, J., Shear, S.B., & Ward, A. (2016). Teaching, troubling, transgressing: Thinking with theory in a post-qualitative inquiry course. Qualitative Inquiry, 22(2), 140-148.

Shear, S.B., Knowles, R., Soden, G., & Castro, A.J. (2015). Manifesting destiny: Re/presentations of Indigenous people in K-12 U.S. history curriculum. Theory & Research in Social Education, 43, 68-101.

NON-REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK REVIEWS

TCSE Editorial Collective. (2021). Welcome to The Critical Social Educator (Introduction to the inaugural issue). The Critical Social Educator, 1(1), 1-5.

Hawkman, A. M. & Shear, S. B. (2020). “Who made these rules? We’re so confused”: An introduction to the special issue on critical race media literacy. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 21(2), 1-4.

Varga, B.A., & Shear, S.B. (2020). (Re)new(ed) territories of liminality: An invitation to disrupt prescription and repetition across/within the academy. Theory & Research in Social Education, 48(3), 460-464.

Shear, S.B. (2019). Book review: The colonial past in history textbooks: Historical and social psychological perspectives. Teachers College Record. Available http://www.tcrecord.org. ID number: 23017.

Tschida, C., & Shear, S.B. (2016). Book review: Review of Preparing to Teach Social Studies for Social Justice: Becoming a Renegade. Teachers College Record. Available online at http://www.tcrecord.org. ID number: 21632.

Shear, S.B. (2016). It’s time to unsettle the settler narrative: A review of Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians. Journal of Social Studies Research, 40(2), 155-157.