The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European society

Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Second Edition offers practical, interesting, and exciting ways to teach social studies. Its reflective and integrative framework emphasizes building imagination, insight, and critical thinking into everyday secondary classrooms. Like the popular first edition, this thoroughly revised and updated edition offers an overall framework to guide teachers in setting objectives, devising lessons, and choosing classroom strategies, as well as assistance in constructing tests, and planning lessons, units, and courses for some of the field's most popular and enduring programs. Throughout the text, all aspects of curriculum and instruction are viewed from a tripartite perspective that divides social studies instruction into didactic (factual), reflective (analytical), and affective (judgmental) components. These three components are seen as supporting one another rather than acting in opposition. At the center of this text is the author's belief that the heart and soul of social studies instruction, perhaps all teaching, lies in stimulating the production of ideas; looking at knowledge from others' viewpoints; and formulating for oneself a set of goals, values, and beliefs that can be explained and justified in open discussion. Features of the text: * weaves theory, curriculum, methods, and assessment into a comprehensive model for social studies instruction, * offers a practical, hands-on approach to lesson planning and curriculum design that features data, documents, and visuals teachers can try out with their students, * encourages problem-solving attitudes and behavior and provokes analysis, critical thinking, reflection, and debate, * uses a personal approach to teaching in a reflective framework, with a minimum of educational jargon and polemicizing, and * includes separate chapters on teaching each of the major areas of the social studies curriculum. New in the second edition: * two completely new chapters on using all sorts of media--from print and photography to computer games and the World Wide Web--to supplement and enrich the social studies classroom, * new material in the chapter on evaluation on using authentic assessment and student portfolios, * discussion of the standards movement, with examples from major new guidelines, and * new examples and response 'boxes' throughout and an extensive, updated, and reorganized bibliography of agencies and resources for the social studies, including internet and e-mail addresses where available.

Product Description: Now in its 4th edition, this popular text for secondary social studies methods courses integrates discussions of educational goals and the nature of history and social studies with ideas for organizing social studies curricula, units, lessons, projects, and activities...read more

Product Description: Building on the success of a much-loved elementary text, Essentials of Middle and Secondary Social Studies focuses on the key issues central to the actual teaching of middle and high school social studies, including lesson planning and inclusive instructional strategies...read more

Product Description: While the concept of integration or an interdisciplinary curriculum has been around for decades, the purposeful practice of integration is a relatively new educational endeavor. Though classroom teachers often say they “integrate,” there generally seems to be a lack of understanding of what this thing called integration is (theory) and what it is supposed to look like in the classroom (practice)...read more

Product Description: A volume in International Social Studies Forum: The Series Series Editors Richard Diem, University of Texas at San Antonio and Jeff Passe, Towson University With the national push towards inclusion, more students with disabilities are being placed in general education settings...read more

Product Description: The creative activities and resources in this book will help teachers improve their students' academic skills, inject humor into their classes, and illustrate the connections between American history, cultural changes, human behavior, ethical issues, current events, and students' lives...read more

Product Description: Internationale Organisationen sind zu wichtigen internationalen Akteuren geworden, die im Rahmen der Völkerrechtsordnung agieren. Ihr Handeln beruht auf rechtlicher Grundlegung und bedarf rechtlicher Einhegung. Dies gilt um so mehr, je stärker dieses Handeln in die Rechtssphäre anderer Völkerrechtssubjekte und Individuen hineinwirkt...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive introduction to teaching social studies to middle and secondary school students includes many new ideas for teaching in our 21st century classrooms.  Continuing the tradition of social studies innovator Peter Martorella and taking a constructivist approach, the authors address current issues such as diversity, technology, inclusion, and teacher certification...read more

Offers beginning teachers advice to guide them through their first few years of teaching and provides tips, easy-to-follow lists, and sample forms to help novice educators organize and streamline their work and reduce stress.

A practical guide provides educators with a way to integrate multicultural themes into the K-12 social studies curriculum, focusing on the goals of student-centered learning while also attending to standards-driven mandates.

Product Description: A volume in: Research in Curriculum and Instruction Series Editor: O. L. Davis, Jr. The University of Texas at Austin The chapters in this volume illustrate how teachers are bringing creativity, higher-order thinking, and meaningful learning activities into particular school settings despite pressures of standards and testing...read more

Product Description: This readable, accessible book offers prospective teachers a comprehensive introduction to teaching social studies to middle and secondary school students. With the purpose of social studies being the development of reflective, competent, concerned citizens, the book first examines the origins and evolution of social studies and citizenship education across the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This study addresses and advances the study and understanding of numerous research and educational an constructs. In particular, it provides greater understanding of the role of teacher beliefs in guiding or influencing classroom practice...read more

Points out the flaws in methods of contemporary social studies education, claiming that it does not result in children becoming active, informed, and critical citizens, and suggests changes to remedy the situation. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text synthesizes and co-ordinates the work of teacher researchers who address the issues of race and ethnicity in the classroom. It deals with issues of teaching within a culturally responsive framework, featuring stories by teachers trying to bring their students multicultural literacies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Suggests ways to enhance social studies education and each of its elements from anthropology to politicial science, and discusses curriculum planning, teaching methods, materials and resources, and assessment. (view table of contents)