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Authors: Jack Zevin, Zevin
ISBN-13: 9780805855586, ISBN-10: 0805855580
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 2007
Edition: 3rd Edition
Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Third Edition weaves theory, curriculum, methods, and assessment into a comprehensive model to guide middle and secondary teachers in setting objectives; planning lessons, units, and courses; choosing classroom strategies; and constructing tests for some of the field's most popular and enduring programs. It offers practical, interesting, exciting ways to teach social studies and a multitude of instructional and professional resources for teachers. The text includes separate chapters on teaching each of the major areas of the social studies curriculum. Its reflective and integrative framework emphasizes building imagination, insight, and critical thinking into everyday classrooms; encourages problem-solving attitudes and behavior; and provokes analysis, reflection, and debate.
Throughout the text, all aspects of curriculum and instruction are viewed from a tripartite perspective that divides social studies instruction into didactic (factual), reflective (analytical), and affective (judgmental) components. These three components are seen as supporting one another, building the groundwork for taking stands on issues, past and present. At the center is the author's belief that the heart and soul of social studies instruction, perhaps all teaching, lies in stimulating the production of ideas; looking at knowledge from others' viewpoints; and formulating for oneself a set of goals, values, and beliefs that can be explained and justified in open discussion.
New in the Third Edition:
* Summaries of recent research, particularly in history education, that have been published since the last edition;
* Increased attention to social studies standards, as well as those for civics, economics, and history;
* An enriched view of teaching history and social studies with a wide array of sources ranging from material objects through primary sources on to art, music, and literature;
* Tightening of the text to make it shorter and more pointed, including a few provocative new ideas;
* More and better-organized ideas for classroom group and individual activities and cooperative learning;* Expanded appendices on instructional resources include the rapidly growing use of websites;
* New visuals that are better integrated into the text and which teachers can use in their classrooms as lessons in visual literacy; and
* Continued efforts to inject a bit of humor and self-criticism into a field of education most students view as a sizeable trunk of dead and deadly facts.
Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Third Edition is a primary text for secondary and middle social studies methods courses.
Intended to be used by social studies teachers at the middle and secondary levels, this text provides a review of the field based on current curriculum, research, and theory. Sections cover the philosophy and history of the social studies; teacher/student interaction; strategies for instruction; teaching the curriculum; textbooks and media; and professional issues and trends. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Personal Prologue | ||
Pt. 1 | Philosophy and History of Social Studies: What Is (Are) the Social Studies? | |
1 | The Social Studies: Definition, Organization, and Philosophy | 3 |
2 | The Fields of Social Studies: How They Relate | 21 |
Pt. 2 | Teachers and Students: A Context for Social Studies Instruction | |
3 | Teachers Roles and Student Audiences | 39 |
4 | Organizing for Instruction | 60 |
Pt. 3 | Strategies for Social Studies Instruction | |
5 | Teaching Strategies for Lower Level Skills | 97 |
6 | Teaching Strategies for Higher Level Skills | 115 |
7 | Planning a Unit From Start to Finish | 140 |
8 | Evaluation in Social Studies | 160 |
Pt. 4 | Teaching the Social Studies Curriculum | |
9 | Teaching World/Global Studies | 199 |
10 | Teaching U.S. History and American Studies | 225 |
11 | Teaching U.S. Government and Civics | 253 |
12 | Old Concerns, New Directions | 282 |
Pt. 5 | Textbooks and Media in the Social Studies | |
13 | The Role of Textbooks in Social Studies Education | 317 |
14 | The "New Age" of Multimedia: Part I. Reading Words and Images: Print Media and the Fine Arts | 334 |
15 | The "New Age" of Multimedia: Part II. Interpreting Moving Images and Sounds | 365 |
Pt. 6 | Beyond the Social Studies Classroom: Professional Issues and Trends | |
16 | The Complete Professional | 383 |
17 | The Future of Social Studies Education | 396 |
App. A | Resources for Instruction | 409 |
App. B | Social Studies Education, Social Science, and History "Good Reads for Big Ideas" | 425 |
Index | 427 |