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Youthscaping Our Classrooms: Nurturing Youth Civic Agency through Youth-Centered Pedagogies
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Aponte-Martínez, Gerardo J.; Pellegrino, Anthony – Social Studies, 2017
Youth are an ever-present component of conversations about culture, interconnectedness, and its effects, especially characterized as readily consuming all that globalization has to offer them. However, opportunities to acknowledge and legitimize the civic experiences youth have and the contributions they make to society have been overlooked in our…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Youth Programs
Three Heroes, Two Stories, One Insight: Literature Marches into History Class
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Vansover, Yaron – Social Studies, 2015
Teachers of history (like all teachers) have a tool kit that holds all their methods and techniques and that allows them to construct a proper history lesson. This article proposes putting a tool into this kit that is generally missing from its contents. This tool supposedly belongs to the tool kit of a different subject teacher: the teacher of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Studies, Historical Interpretation, Educational Practices
Establishing an Environment for Inquiry: Using the "Complete Lesson."
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Keller, Clair W. – Social Studies, 1973
The complete lesson enables the teacher to relate teaching strategies to levels of cognitive behavior, and stems from the belief that higher levels of cognitive behavior are developed only after a learner first acquires information and then puts that information to use. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Decision Making Skills, Inquiry, Problem Solving
Matrix Models in the Social Sciences: Response to the Knowledge Explosion
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Sadker, David; Cooper, James M. – Social Studies, 1972
Constructing a matrix model not only offers the teacher a theoretical and practical method for organizing his own knowledge about a topic, but provides a vehicle for the student to cope with contemporary knowledge explosion in a realistic and sophisticated manner. (Author)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
A Strategy for Using Children's Literature to Extend the Social Studies Curriculum.
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Davis, John C., III; Palmer, Jesse – Social Studies, 1992
Describes a teaching model in which the teacher supplements the social studies text with children's literature to make historic events and people more meaningful to students. Suggests that teachers consider students' knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation levels when selecting activities. Includes diagrams…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
A Process of Values Analysis
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Olmo, Barbara – Social Studies, 1975
A simplified inquiry process, structured by the teacher to require students to make decisions leading to values clarification and/or self-evaluation, is provided. (DE)
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry
A Temporal-Inquiry Teaching Model: A Practical Response to the Inquiry Methodology
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Garrett, Larry N.; Heyl, R. James – Social Studies, 1976
A model for teaching social studies by the discovery approach is presented. The authors maintain that the temporal inquiry teaching model holds considerable promise for encouraging student enthusiasm, emphasizing higher cognitive levels, and stimulating divergent student thinking and activity. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry, Learning Activities
Foreign Policy Issues: A High School Application of the Engle and Ochoa Reflective Teaching Model.
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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