Recently added articles from The Social Studies:
History in the secondary school: the use of the blackboard in the teaching of history.
May 01, 2009; ... It has long been advocated in educational theory that we should appeal to the visual as well as to the auditory sense of the pupil. Experiments in psychology have proven that some learn chiefly through the organ of sight, and others by means of the organ of hearing. Everyone is taught to ...
Teaching religion in America's public schools: a necessary disruption.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Religion plays an important role in social studies content and is difficult to ignore, especially because of current world events. In our global society, it is more important than ever to know about and understand the religious beliefs of others. The social studies curriculum is ...
At the crossroads of the world: women of the Middle East.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The authors offer a brief introduction to the history of women of the Middle East, with a focus on three major religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). Schools are paying increased attention to teaching world history, but they are giving too little attention to incorporating ...
Back to the future: the expanding communities curriculum in geography education.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. This article traces the history of the expanding communities approach, the leading organizational structure for elementary social studies education since the 1930s. Since its introduction into the curriculum, educators have argued about the approach's effectiveness and ...
Do as I say and do as I do: using the professor-in-residence model in teaching social studies methods.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Concerned with combining theory with practice, the author, a teacher educator, wrote a grant to combine teaching university social studies methods and teaching sixth-grade social studies in an urban professional development site (PDS). By combining both roles, she created a ...
The butterfly effect: the impact of citizenship education.(social science education)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. This article tells the story of a classroom teacher's journey with her elementary students as they attempt to understand and define citizenship. The narrative highlights the process of using an emergent curriculum, creating a democratic classroom, and facilitating an active ...
Identifying soft democratic education: uncovering the range of civic and cultural choices in instructional materials.(social science education)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Although student deliberation of public issues is recognized as a vital component of democratic education, little research focuses on the range of perspectives available to students during such deliberation. Social justice and legitimacy demand a wide range of inclusion, choices, ...
Social Studies on the Internet.(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Berson, Michael J., Barbara C. Cruz, James A. Duplass, and J. Howard Howard Johnston. 2007. Social Studies on the Internet. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Allyn & Bacon. In today's twenty-first-century classrooms, students should be learning with technology. Textbooks should ...