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Critical-Service Learning as a Revolutionary Pedagogy: An International Project of Student Agency in Action. Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society
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Porfilio, Bradley, Ed.; Hickman, Heather, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
This volume will be a valuable resource to instructors who teach in the fields of teacher education, social studies, educational leadership, social work, social, cultural and philosophical foundations of education, sociology, political science, and global studies as well as their students. Due to the volume's international focus, the authors also…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Political Science, Global Education, Altruism
Sea Changes in Social Science Education: Woods Hole 2000. The Social Science Education Consortium Conference Series.
White, Charles S., Ed. – 2001
The agenda for the Social Science Education Consortium conference at Woods Hole (Massachusetts) was designed to continue a tradition of examining scholarship relative to the social sciences in K-12 education. The content focus for this volume, is political science, economics, and sociology. Following a "Foreword" (Matthew T. Downey; Joseph P.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Economics
Contexts of the Bill of Rights.
Schechter, Stephen L., Ed.; Bernstein, Richard B., Ed. – 1990
This book contains three major essays that consider the origins of the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. In "The U.S. Bill of Rights in Historical Perspective," Donald S. Lutz examines the intellectual context of the Bill of Rights by analyzing the changing ideas about rights in colonial,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Political Science
Contemporary Perspectives on the Enduring Constitution: A Bicentennial Primer.
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American Bar Association, Chicago, IL. Special Committee on Youth Education for Citizenship. – 1991
The 17 essays included in this book are designed to provide educators and other interested readers with contemporary perspectives on a broad range of themes and topics concerning the U.S. Constitution. The authors are a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and jurists. The essays include: "The Achievement…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Elementary Secondary Education
Social Studies and Social Sciences: A Fifty-Year Perspective. Bulletin No. 78.
Wronski, Stanley P., Ed.; Bragaw, Donald H., Ed. – 1986
This publication documents the development of the social studies during the past 50 years. This collection of essays updates major trends in history, political science, sociology, economics, psychology, anthropology, and geography. Unlike two earlier collections, this book has an emphasis on the continuing problems, trends, and issues in both the…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Citizenship Education, Economics, Educational History
Charting a Course: Social Studies for the 21st Century. A Report of the Curriculum Task Force of the National Commission on Social Studies in the Schools.
American Historical Association, Washington, DC. – 1989
This report by the Curriculum Task Force represents its considered conclusion about general reform (K-12) of the social studies curriculum in the United States. It presents a balanced and comprehensive curriculum program adapted to the needs of present day society and suggests direction for the future. Part 1 discusses the recommended social…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Economics