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Download full textDanzer, Gerald A. – 1997
The teaching of history is part of the continuous process of redefining American civilization that lies at the center of what it means to be an American. A major challenge facing teachers of U.S. history is how to strike an appropriate balance between the forces of continuity and change. Much of the concern over history standards and the choice of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, High Schools, History Instruction
Old Wine in New Bottles: An Analysis of Changes in Social Studies Textbooks from Old to New Edition.
Woodward, Arthur; Nagel, Kathleen Carter – 1987
Faced with a market that puts a premium on newness, artwork, and copyright date, the textbook industry seems to have been forced into a hectic textbook revision cycle in which improvement in instructional quality takes a poor second place to more superficial changes. While educators think they are getting newer, different, and, therefore better…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Publishing Industry
Stoddard, Ann H. – 1984
Intended for primary school teachers involved in social studies instruction, this paper offers guidelines for selecting and using children's literature to teach social studies concepts. The paper first deals with selecting children's literature works, presenting basic considerations relating children's developmental stages to characteristics of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Guidelines
Williams, Ray – 1982
A British publisher conducted a readability study of its English language content area texts being used in foreign countries to determine how the texts could be made more readable. A cloze procedure assessment of a secondary school Hong Kong social studies series indicated that the English texts were too difficult for 91% of the pupils tested.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, English (Second Language)
Hahn, Carole L. – 1978
A study measuring perceptions of participants in social studies textbook adoption for Georgia school districts investigated how participants' attitudes and perceptions correlated with textbook adoption. It was hypothesized that school systems would adopt new social studies materials which were perceived by members of the textbook adoption…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitudes, Case Studies, Decision Making
Eash, Maurice J.; Rasher, Sue Pinzur – 1978
This case study recounts the attempts of two school districts to improve decision making on the adoption of a new elementary social studies curriculum by using formal evaluation methodology. The study's main objective was to develop a series of criterion referenced (mastery level) tests from a list of social studies objectives to determine whether…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Course Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests
