Social Science Education

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"Contemporary Social Studies: An Essential Reader discusses the contemporary issues surrounding social studies education today...The collection inspires and provokes readers to reconsider and reexamine social studies and its contemporary state. Readers will explore the various critical topics that encompass contemporary social studies."

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Social studies : problems & possibilities -- Defining social studies -- In search of the social studies curriculum : standardization, diversity, & a conflict of appearances -- Climates of constraint/restraint of teachers & teaching -- Toward enlightened political engagement -- Committing acts of history : mediated action, humanistic education, & participatory democracy -- Interrogating privilege, plurality & possibilities in a multicultural society -- Moving the center of global education : from imperial world views that divide the world to double consciousness, contrapuntal pedagogy hybridity, & cross-cultural competence -- Promise & practice of computer technologies in the social studies : a critical analysis -- The future of research on social studies--for what purpose?

Digital Visual Literacy in the Social Studies Classroom -- K-12 Online Learning: The Next Frontier for Social Studies Education -- Developing Multiple Literacies of Young Learners with Digital Primary Sources -- Digital Resources in the Social Studies Classroom for Students with Learning Disabilities -- Beyond the Poster: Harnessing Technology for Powerful Social Studies Instruction -- Digital Tools for the 21st Century Social Studies Classroom -- Digital Storytelling in the Social Studies -- Consumers & Producers in the Social Studies Classroom: How Web 2.0 Technology Can Break the Cycle of "Teachers & Machines" -- Wikis in Social Studies -- Gaming, Technology & the Social Studies: An Alliance with Promise -- Online Synchronous Discussions, Middle School Students & Mock UN Security Council Meeting -- "Now We Can Get This Off the Ground & Rolling!" Using the Internet in a Youth Civic Engagement Project -- Exploring the Complexity of Music & the Utility of Digital Access to Understand the Past -- Social Media as a Catalyst for Convergence Culture: Immersing Pre-service Social Studies Teachers in the Social Media Terrain -- Mashing Socrates & Zuckerberg: Discussing Social Issues with Social Technologies -- Talking & Listening Across Difference: Teaching Democratic Citizenship in Online Discussion Spaces -- New Horizons in Civics Education: Learning through Digital Gaming -- A Content Analysis of Social Studies Journals for the Infusion of Technology -- United States Government Websites for Children: How Useful Are They for Content Instruction? -- To Be or Not to Be...Digital: A Critical Examination of Seven Digital History Textbooks for Social Studies Educators -- Emotional Evocation & Desktop Documentary Making: Secondary Students' Motivations while Composing Historical Documentaries

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-- Continuity and change in social studies curriculum -- Early elementary social studies -- What happens in social studies classrooms? : research on K-12 social studies practice -- Knowing and doing in democratic citizenship education -- International political socialization research -- Service-learning -- Controversial issues and democratic discourse -- Diversity and citizenship education : historical, theoretical, and philosophical issues -- Social justice and the social studies -- Gender and sexuality in the social studies -- Global education -- Assessment and accountability in the social studies -- Research on students' ideas about history -- Research on K-12 geography education -- Recent research on the teaching and learning of pre-collegiate economics -- Technology and social studies -- The education of social studies teachers -- The professional development of social studies teachers

"The Handbook of Research on Citizenship and Heritage Education is a critical scholarly book that provides relevant and current research on citizenship and heritage education aimed at promoting active participation and the transformation of society. Readers will come to understand the role of heritage as a symbolic identity source that facilitates the understanding of the present and the past, highlighting the value of teaching. Additionally, it offers a source for the design of didactic proposals that promote active participation and the critical conservation of heritage. Featuring a range of topics such as educational policy, curriculum design, and political science, this book is ideal..."

"The Handbook of Research on Education for Participative Citizenship and Global Prosperity is a pivotal reference source focusing on the productions and fields of study that are carried out all over the world on education for citizenship, namely the devices that provide young people with the consciousness and highlight the aspects of an active democratic life. While highlighting topics such as citizenship identity, educational policy, and social justice, this publication explores participation instruction, as well as the methods of community involvement."

"This Handbook provides a systematic and analytical approach to the various dimensions of international, ethnic and domestic conflict over the uses of national history in education since the end of the Cold War. With an upsurge in political, social and cultural upheaval, particularly since the fall of state socialism in Europe, the importance of history textbooks and curricula as tools for influencing the outlooks of entire generations is thrown into sharp relief. Using case studies from 58 countries, this book explores how history education has had the potential to shape political allegiances and collective identities."

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Notes toward a historiography of the social studies : recent scholarship & future directions -- Research, race, & social education -- The lamp & the mirror : action research & self studies in the social studies -- Children as co-researchers : developing a democratic research practice with children -- Donning wigs, divining feelings, & other dilemmas of doing research in devoutly religious contexts -- Comparative & international social studies research -- Combining cognitive interviews & social science surveys : strengthening interpretation & design -- Capturing candor : accessing teachers' thinking about the cultivation of historical empathy -- Oh, the trouble we've seen : researching historical thinking & understanding

"Comprehensive in scope, the contributions cover major themes and issues in history education including: policy, research, and societal contexts; conceptual constructs of history education; ideologies, identities, and group experiences in history education; practices and learning; historical literacies: texts, media, and social spaces; and consensus and dissent. This vital resource contains original writings by more than 40 scholars from seven countries, identifies major themes and issues shaping history education today, highlights history education as a distinct field of scholarly inquiry and academic practice, presents an authoritative survey of where the field has been and offers a view of what the future may hold."