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…

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)

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…