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Article: Social studies: wrong, right, or left? A critical response to the Fordham Institute's Where Did Social Studies Go Wrong? (Part II).
- Article from:
- The Social Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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The purpose of social education is for citizens to learn how to judge
for themselves what will secure or endanger their freedom.
--Thomas Jefferson
Social studies education is a field defined by fractious ideological divisions, but establishing a singular vision to be pursued in social studies is not something that can (or should) be done once and for all. As we argued in the introduction to the first installment of articles responding to Where Did Social Studies Go Wrong? (WDSSGW), deliberation--rather than coercion, appeals to emotion, or authority--offers a means for resolving differences of opinion and a foundation for curriculum and pedagogy that is ...