Developing Current Events Awareness in Children.

Passe, Jeff

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Publication Date: 1988

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Developing Current Events Awareness in Children.

Passe, Jeff

Social Education, v52 n7 p531-33 Nov-Dec 1988

Presents several components of current events instruction for the elementary classroom. These serve as criteria for teachers to diagnose their lessons. Describes three classroom scenarios and analyzes the effectiveness of current events instruction in each. Models offered for designing classroom instruction are value analysis, decision making, and feeling exploration. (KO)

Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Conflict Resolution, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Decision Making, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education, Productive Thinking, Social Studies, Values Clarification, World Affairs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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