The Social Studies Curriculum

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The Social Studies Curriculum
Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities

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E. Wayne Ross - Editor

SUNY series, Theory, Research, and Practice in Social Education

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Hardcover - 274 pages

Release Date: July 1997

ISBN10: 0-7914-3443-5
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3443-7

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Paperback - 274 pages

Release Date: July 1997

ISBN10: 0-7914-3444-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3444-4

Summary

Presents a substantive overview of the issues faced in social studies curriculum design, development, and implementation, with an emphasis on diversity of purposes and forms of knowledge within social studies as a school subject.

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.

"Leading-edge thinking and writing, sophisticated and timely." -- M. Eugene Gilliom, Ohio University

"To my mind, Wayne Ross is doing more than anyone else today in North America to keep alive (and, one hopes, to resurrect) social studies--the field certainly needs it. The authors represent the best in the social studies community today." -- Lynda Stone, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill

"There are too few new books in the field that explore the range of topics and issues as this one does." -- Peter H. Martorella, North Carolina State University

E. Wayne Ross is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at State University of New York, Binghamton. He is coeditor of Teacher Personal Theorizing: Connecting Curriculum Practice, Theory, and Research, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
E. Wayne Ross

Part I: Purposes of the Social Studies Curriculum

1. The Struggle for the Social Studies Curriculum
E. Wayne Ross

2. History as the Core of Social Studies Education
Michael Whelan

3. The Unique Mission of the Social Studies
David Warren Saxe

Part II: Social Issues and the Social Studies Curriculum

4. Social Studies and Feminism
Nel Noddings

5. Gender in Social Education
Jane Bernard-Powers

6. Against the Sovereignty of Origins: Contradictions in the Experience of Racial Inequality in Education and Society
Cameron McCarthy

7. Multicalutural Social Studies: Schools as Places for Examining and Challenging Inequality
David Hursh

Part III: The Social Studies Curriculum in Practice

8. Crafting a Culturally Relevant Social Studies Approach
Gloria Ladson-Billings

9. Social Studies and the Arts
Terrie L. Epstein

10. Science in Social Stdies: Reclaiming Science for Social Knowledge
Stephen C. Fleury

11. Infusing Global Perspectives into the Social Studies Curriculum
Merry M. Merryfield

12. Teaching Social Issues: Implementing an Issues-Centered Curriculum
Ronald W. Evans

13. Assessment in Social Studies: Moving toward Authenticity
Sandra Mathison

Notes

References

Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

Related Subjects

Cultural Critique
Curriculum
Education

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