Helping to Light the Way: The Case for Civic, Geographic, Economic, and Interdisciplinary Social Studies Thinking

Helping to Light the Way: The Case for Civic, Geographic, Economic, and Interdisciplinary Social Studies Thinking addresses a long standing imbalance in social studies education. While the C3 Framework has energized classrooms and scholarship—particularly around historical thinking—far less attention has been devoted to strengthening students’ reasoning in civics, economics, and geography. This uneven focus has left teachers with fewer concrete models for cultivating disciplinary literacy a...