A volume in Teaching and Learning Social Studies Book Series Series Editor William Benedict Russell III, University of Central Florida For social studies teachers reeling from the buffeting of top-down educational reforms, this volume offers answers to questions about dealing with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Each chapter presents and reviews pertinent standards that relate to the social studies. Each chapter also deals with significant topics in the social studies from various social sciences to processes such as inquiry to key skills needed for success in social studies such as...

A volume in Teaching and Learning Social Studies Book Series Series Editor William Benedict Russell III, University of Central Florida For social studies teachers reeling from the buffeting of top-down educational reforms, this volume offers answers to questions about dealing with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Each chapter presents and reviews pertinent standards that relate to the social studies. Each chapter also deals with significant topics in the social studies from various social sciences to processes such as inquiry to key skills needed for success in social studies such as...

Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sections Reflecting on Community Partnerships, Reflecting on Classroom Practice, and Reflecting on Diversity so as to represent interdisciplinary subjects, diverse student populations, and differing instructional perspectives about service-learning in higher education....