The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems, and PossibilitiesE. Wayne Ross This book offers contemporary perspectives on some of the most enduring problems facing social studies educators. The contributors systematically investigate a broad range of issues affecting the curriculum, enabling teachers and other curriculum workers to better understand the nature, scope, and context of curriculum concerns in today's schools. Contributors include Jane Bernard-Powers, Terrie L. Epstein, Ronald W. Evans, Stephen C. Fleury, David Hursh, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Sandra Mathison, Cameron McCarthy, Merry M. Merryfield, Nel Noddings, David Warren Saxe, and Michael Whelan. |
Contents
The Struggle for the Social Studies Curriculum | 3 |
History as the Core of Social Studies Education | 21 |
The Unique Mission of Social Studies | 39 |
Social Issues and the Social Studies Curriculum | 57 |
Social Studies and Feminism | 59 |
Gender in Social Education | 71 |
Against the Sovereignty of Origins Contradictions in the Experience of Racial Inequality in Education and Society | 91 |
Multicultural Social Studies Schools as Places for Examining and Challenging Inequality | 107 |
Science in Social Studies Reclaiming Science for Social Knowledge | 165 |
Infusing Global Perspectives into the Social Studies Curriculum | 183 |
Teaching Social Issues Implementing an IssuesCentered Curriculum1 | 197 |
Assessment in Social Studies Moving toward Authenticity | 213 |
Notes | 225 |
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Contributors | 259 |
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The Social Studies Curriculum in Practice | 121 |
Crafting a Culturally Relevant Social Studies Approach | 123 |
Social Studies and the Arts | 137 |
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References to this book
The Greenwood Dictionary of Education John William Collins,Nancy P. O'Brien No preview available - 2003 |
Democratic Education for Social Studies: An Issues-centered Decision Making ... Anna S. Ochoa-Becker No preview available - 2007 |