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Title The social studies curriculum : purposes, problems, and possibilities / edited by E. Wayne Ross.

Imprint Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Welsh  372.83043 So13 2006    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 3rd ed.
Description ix, 358 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Social studies teachers and curriculum / E. Wayne Ross -- Purposes of the social studies curriculum -- The struggle for the social studies curriculum / E. Wayne Ross -- Teaching history: a constructivist approach / Michael Whelan -- Oppression, anti-oppression and citizenship education / Kevin D. Vinson -- The future is now: social studies in the world of 2056 / Perry M. Marker -- Social issues and the social studies curriculum -- Defining the social studies curriculum: influence of and resistance to curriculum standards and testing in social studies / Sandra Mathison, E. Wayne Ross, Kevin D. Vinson -- Racism, prejudice and the social studies curriculum / Jack L. Nelson, Valerie Ooka Pang -- The color of social studies: a post-social studies reality check / Frances V. Rains -- Marxism and critical multi-cultural social studies / Curry Malott, Marc Pruyn -- Gender and social education: what's the problem / Margaret Smith Crocco -- The social studies curriculum in practice -- Struggling for good assessment in social studies education / Sandra Mathison, Kristi Fragnoli -- Reading pictures of people / Walter Werner -- A world of knowledge: social education and digital technology / Brenda Trofaneko -- Out in the classroom: addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues in social studies curriculum / Kevin Jennings -- Teaching social studies as if it mattered: young children and moral deliberation / Linda Farr Darling -- Decolonizing the mind for world-centered global education / Merry M. Merryfield, Binaya Subedi -- Teaching democracy: what schools need to do / Joseph Kahne, Joel Westheimer -- Remaking the social studies curriculum / E. Wayne Ross.
Subject Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Curricula -- United States.
Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Curricula -- United States.
Curriculum planning -- United States.
Added Author Ross, E. Wayne, 1956-
ISBN 0791469093 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780791469095 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0791469107 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791469101 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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