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The fully updated 5th edition of
Elementary Social Studies provides a rich and ambitious framework to help social studies teachers achieve powerful teaching and learning results. By blending the theoretical and the practical, this book is essential reading for pre-service and in-service social studies teachers.
List of contents
Part 1: The Commonplaces of Education: A Framework for Powerful Social Studies Teaching
1. Creating a Framework for the Social Studies Classroom
2. Learners and Learning: Understanding What Students Know and How They Come to Know It
3. Subject Matter: A Threads Approach
4. Teachers and Teaching: Working with Ideas and Questions
5. Teachers and Teaching: Choosing Strategies, Curriculum Materials, and Influences on Teaching
6. Teachers and Teaching: Assessment
7. The Classroom Environment: Creating a Genuine Community
8. Social Studies and Literacy
Part 2: Putting the Commonplaces into Action
9. Purposes, Goals, and Objectives for Teaching and Learning
10. The Inquiry Design Model
11. Constructing Curriculum Inquiries
12. Becoming a Reflective Social Studies Teacher
Glossary
Appendix: Content Resources from Children's Literature
About the author
S.G. Grant is Professor Emeritus of Social Studies Education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership at Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA.
Bruce A. VanSledright is Professor Emeritus of History/Social Studies Education in the Department of Reading and Elementary Education at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.
Anne-Lise Halvorsen is Professor of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, USA.
Summary
The fully updated 5th edition of Elementary Social Studies provides a rich and ambitious framework to help social studies teachers achieve powerful teaching and learning results. By blending the theoretical and the practical, this book is essential reading for pre-service and in-service social studies teachers.
