Examines how the new social studies has found its way into the African social studies organization. Points out that the United States' new social studies was to be emphasized but fashioned in an African context based on the former's reform phases, especially the reflective inquiry tradition of reform. (TRS)

Aims of conceptual clarity of scope and aims of social studies by offering a definition of social studies as a way of organizing, selecting and teaching content related to citizenship, and by describing the three competing traditions within the social studies. A related article is SO 500 189. (JB)