Teaching Social Studies That Matters Curriculum for Active Learning

Name: Teaching Social Studies That Matters Curriculum for Active Learning
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ISBN: 9780807745229

ISBN-10: 0807745227

ISBN-13: 9780807745229

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stephen Thornton, Stephen Thornton

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 11/8/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Making Social Studies Matter



Why Gatekeeping Matters More Than Curriculum Change


Defining Social Studies


Aims Talk


Subject Matter and Methods


Student Interest and Effort



How Has the Social Studies Curriculum Been Organized?


Emergence of Social Studies as a School Subject


Where Should the Curriculum Developer Begin?


Social Studies as Social Science: The Survey of American History


Social Studies as Social Education: Problems of Democracy



Aims Must Matter


Aims Talk Matters


The Student as a Source of Aims


Society as a Source of Aims


Scholarship as a Source of Aims



Toward a Balanced and Flexible Curriculum


Conceptualizing Curriculum Planning


Connections Between Goals and Subject Matter


Teachers and the Curriculum


Curriculum Reconsidered



Methods


Curriculum Reform and the Neglect of Methods


From Curriculum to Method


Principled Selection of Methods


Lesson Types


Conclusion



Educating the Educators


Subject-Matter Preparation


Obstacles to Effective Methods Courses


Toward More Effective Methods


Method and Curriculum Materials


Conclusion



Enactment of Curriculum That Matters


References


Index


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