Critical Issues in Social Studies Research for the 21st Century / Edition 1

by William B. Stanley

Overview

This volume includes essay papers on the standards/accountability movement, computer technology in social studies, cultures of constraint/restraint, connecting multicultural and social studies education, and the prospects for social studies research in the 21st century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930608061
Publisher:	Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	01/15/2004
Series:	Research in Social Education
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	List of Contributors	ix
	Acknowledgements	xi
1.	Social Studies: Problems and Possibilities	1
2.	Defining Social Studies	15
3.	In Search of the Social Studies Curriculum: Standardization, Diversity, and a Conflict of Appearances	39
4.	Climates of Constraint/Restraint of Teachers and Teaching	73
5.	Toward Enlightened Political Engagement	97
6.	Committing Acts of History: Mediated Action, Humanistic Education, and Participatory Democracy	119
7.	Interrogating Privilege, Plurality and Possibilities in a Multicultural Society	149
8.	Moving the Center of Global Education: From Imperial World Views that Divide the World to Double Consciousness, Contrapuntal Pedagogy, Hybridity, and Cross-Cultural Competence	179
9.	Promise and Practice of Computer Technologies in the Social Studies: A Critical Analysis	209
10.	The Future of Research on Social Studies--For What Purpose?	231
11.	Epilogue	253

Editorial Reviews

Contributors from around the US examine such issues as defining social studies, climates of constraint and restraint on teachers and teaching, committing acts of history, moving the center of global education, and computer technologies. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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