Teaching and studying social issues : major programs and approaches

Teaching and Studying Social Issues: Major Programs and Approaches focuses on many of the major innovations developed over the past 100 years by noted educators to assist students in the study and analysis of key social issues that impact their lives and society. This book complements earlier books...

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Other Authors Totten, Samuel (Editor), Pedersen, Jon E., 1960- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age, 2010.
Subjects
Social sciences > Study and teaching.
Education > Social aspects.
Education > Teaching > Subjects > General.
Teaching of a specific subject.
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electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616862
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-046-7
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 384 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Teaching and studying social issues: Major programs and approaches / Samuel Totten and Jon E. Pedersen
  • Chapter 1. From vision to vilification to rehabilitation: Harold Rugg, a journey / Karen L. Riley and Barbara Slater Stern
  • Chapter 2. Maurice P. Hunt and Lawrence E. Metcalf: Teaching high school social studies--reflective thinking, closed areas of culture, problem solving models and values in social studies / Sherry L. Field, Jeff Passe, Mary Lee Webeck, and Michelle Bauml
  • Chapter 3. Citizenship education using rational decision making: Donald Oliver, James Shaver, and Fred Newmann's public issues model / Barbara Slater Stern
  • Chapter 4. The reflective classroom envisioned in inquiry in social studies-- by Massialas and Cox / Jack Zevin
  • Chapter 5. Human rights education / Felisa Tibbitts and William R. Fernekes
  • Chapter 6. Facing history and ourselves: Noble purpose, unending controversy / Karen L. Riley, Elizabeth Yeager Washington, and Emma K. Humphries
  • Chapter 7. Teaching about the Holocaust in U.S. Schools / Thomas D. Fallace
  • Chapter 8. Environmental education / Mindy Spearman
  • Chapter 9. An economic way of thinking: Approaches and curricula for teaching about social issues through economics / Phillip J. VanFossen and Christopher McGrew
  • Chapter 10. Teaching social issues from a global perspective / Merry M. Merryfield
  • Chapter 11. Multicultural education reform movement / Allan R. Brandhorst
  • Chapter 12. The (unfulfilled) promise of critical pedagogy / Ronald W. Evans
  • Chapter 13. Education for democratic citizenship: Decision making in the social studies / Mark A. Previte
  • Chapter 14. The many faces of sts: Social issues in science education / Barbara Spector and Robert Yager
  • Chapter 15. Beane's integrative curricular program / Jon Pedersen
  • Chapter 16. Genocide education / Samuel Totten
  • Biographies.

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