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Avery, Patricia G.; Levy, Sara A.; Simmons, Annette M. M. – Social Studies, 2013
The authors argue that deliberation should be an integral part of secondary civics classrooms and teacher education programs. Drawing on a wide range of research, they contend that teaching and learning deliberative skills has the potential to build individual and group civic capacity. They share some of the results of an evaluation of one…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Secondary Education, Classroom Techniques
The King Edward Debating Society Adds Current Events to Elementary and Middle-School Social Studies.

McGeown, Casimir – Social Studies, 1995
Describes a current affairs program involving the examination of social issues in a Canadian elementary school. Discusses significant aspects of the program, including the debate format, the use of computers, and a partnership with a local cable television company. Includes an appendix of the debating/talk-show format used. (CFR)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cable Television, Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education

Selakovich, Daniel – Social Studies, 1975
In many social studies classes learning is made "relevant" by simply presenting contemporary issues and current affairs. However, when teaching about issues, certain decisions need to be made concerning content and techniques. The author makes a suggestion that the major content focus on not merely understanding the problems facing society, but…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Current Events, Elementary Secondary Education

Totten, Samuel – Social Studies, 1986
Describes an approach for including social issues in United States history classes. Provides examples of how specific issues were integrated with common course topics. (JDH)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Development, Inquiry, Instructional Improvement

Campbell, Lloyd P. – Social Studies, 1977
The purpose of this article is to use the vehicle of a controversial issue--abortion--as a means of illustrating the advantages of teaching such issues through a problem-solving method. Discussion ideas and resources are presented. (Author/JR)
Descriptors: Abortions, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Learning Activities, Problem Solving

Brandhorst, Allan R. – Social Studies, 1992
Addresses the importance of teaching young people about foreign policy issues. Discusses state sovereignty and interpersonal and international conflict. Describes a reflective teaching approach in which a problem is identified, defined, and explored by probing questions. Suggests identifying value assumptions and alternatives, predicting…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Decision Making, Foreign Policy, Secondary Education

Engle, Shirley H. – Social Studies, 1989
Outlines a method for modifying the current social studies curriculum so it can be taught from an issue-centered approach. States that conventional courses in history and geography would be organized around the study of a select number of important issues and illustrates the way these classes would be taught using this approach. (SLM)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Decision Making

Gross, Richard E. – Social Studies, 1989
Contends that the problems approach is new to most teachers and is at odds with the dominant curricular trend that includes reliance on textbooks and content-oriented courses. Concludes that there is a formidable set of forces opposing the implementation of such a curriculum. (SLM)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Secondary Education

Massialas, Byron G. – Social Studies, 1989
Outlines two reasons that issue-centered discourse will be legitimized in the schools. Contends that the impact of societal problems will force schools to deal with social issues, and that the recognition of the hidden curriculum's influence will impel schools to capitalize on the learning taking place within their walls. (SLM)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Change, Educational Trends

Evans, Ronald W. – Social Studies, 1989
Notes the current attempt to replace social studies with U.S. history and geography. Delineates the two strands of thought in the social studies reform movement and argues that there is a strong tradition of the social studies as a unified, issue-centered field of study. (SLM)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Educational Change, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education

Evans, Ronald W. – Social Studies, 1989
Reviews the history of social studies as an integrated, issue-centered field of study from its inception within the progressive movement to the present. Summarizes major curricular development projects within the issues-centered orientation and speculates on the decline of the problems approach in social studies education. (SLM)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History

Evans, Ronald W.; Avery, Patricia G.; Pederson, Patricia Velde – Social Studies, 1999
Considers the taboo topics that social studies teachers avoid or de-emphasize, such as topics that tend to provoke strong emotional reactions. Addresses the reasons for the stifling of taboo topics and finds that the closer a topic is to students' lives the more likely the topic is labeled as taboo. (CMK)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Agenda Setting, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum

Stern, Barbara Slater; Riley, Karen Lea – Social Studies, 2001
Provides historical information on Harold Rugg and the Social Reconstructionist movement. Contends the social issues-centered method should be used within social studies education. Discusses a social issues model that exposes preservice teachers to the social issues-centered model and focuses on a case study on California Proposition 187. (CMK)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Rossi, John Allen – Social Studies, 2006
Even though social studies teachers may value discussion of controversial issues, such practice is rare in most social studies classrooms. Nystrand, Gamoran, and Carbonaro (1998) reported that 90 percent of the instruction they observed in more than one hundred middle and high school classes involved no discussion at all. What teachers cite as…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Student Relationship, Democracy, Discussion (Teaching Technique)

Levitt, Gregory A.; Longstreet, Wilma S. – Social Studies, 1993
Argues that teaching authentic civic values in schools frequently requires teaching about controversial issues. Asserts that adequate teacher preparation and continued inservice education is essential for effective instruction about contemporary social problems. Includes two model lessons and a list of organizations that offer materials for civic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Development
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