Product Description: This readable, accessible book offers prospective teachers a comprehensive introduction to teaching social studies to middle and secondary school students. With the purpose of social studies being the development of reflective, competent, concerned citizens, the book first examines the origins and evolution of social studies and citizenship education across the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Based on the principle that the fundamental purpose of the social studies should be the development of reflective, competent, and concerned global citizens, Social Studies for Elementary School Classrooms matches solid social studies teaching aids with examples of applications in real K-6 classrooms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: An original analysis of the expanding and evolving role of technology in the social studies curriculum, Interactive Technologies and the Social Studies fills a significant void in the existing literature. The contributors come from diverse backgrounds with specializations embracing the areas of social studies education, software development, computer science, and visual design...read more

Product Description: "In preparing for and assuming their roles as citizens of a democracy, children of today will need to acquire some of the same skills as did preceding generations of students".