The authors of this book determine that traditional social studies curricula are no longer relevant to helping students cope as informed citizens in a changing society and offer a new approach to social education focusing on the full range of data sources, media, and forms of human action. The social studies curricula outlined here are based on…

Criticizes the National Commission on Social Studies in the Schools' report, "Charting a Course: Social Studies for the 21st Century." Questions the report's chronological exposition of history, exclusion of social problems until twelfth grade, emphasis on content, lack of selectivity, and declarative mood. Contends that, by ignoring…