Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Social Science

Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to prevent some of the most harmful of these changes.

Perhaps the most worrisome one, Ben-Porath contends, is a growing emphasis in schools and elsewhere on social conformity, on tendentious teaching of history, and on drawing stark distinctions between them and us. As she...

A groundbreading study of urban sprawl in Calgary, Expansive Discourses looks at the city's development after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew; developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the city had to consider wider planning constraints and infrastructure costs. Max Foran examines the complexity of their debates from a historical perspective, why each party acted as it did, and where each can be criticized.

This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" - prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to understand different perspectives to participate in an increasingly diverse, multicultural global society. Mark Baildon and James Damico offer an integrated theoretical framework and corresponding set of web-based technology tools to guide a reconceptualized social studies education and provide...

Effective Teaching and Learning in Practice provides an exploration of practical teaching strategies supported by practical experience, research evidence and theory. Don Skinner uses examples from a wide range of teaching and educational contexts, drawing on international developments and best practice, to provide a comprehensive, practical guide to teaching and learning.

Topics explored include:
- Learning through Action and Experience
- Inter-Disciplinary Learning
- Understanding and Developing Pedagogy
- Researching and Developing Teaching

Written in an...

Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with "People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess." In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.

Each 40-minute lesson plan includes an NCSS theme, materials and...