Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century: Methods and Materials for Teaching in Middle and Secondary Schools

This popular text offers practical, interesting, and exciting ways to teach social studies, with a comprehensive model for setting objectives, planning lessons, units, and courses, choosing classroom strategies, and constructing tests. It emphasizes building imagination, insight, and critical thinking into everyday classrooms, encourages problem-solving attitudes and behavior, and provokes analysis, reflection, and debate. The author's belief that the heart and soul of social studies instruction lies in stimulating the production of ideas, looking at knowledge from others' viewpoints, and formulating a set of goals, values, and beliefs that can be explained and justified in open discussion is at the center of the text.

Format: Hardback
Length: 298 pages
Publication date: 17 March 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This widely acclaimed textbook provides engaging and practical approaches to teaching social studies, accompanied by a wealth of instructional and professional resources for educators. Incorporating theory, curriculum, methods, and assessment into a comprehensive framework for setting objectives, planning lessons, units, and courses, it offers insightful guidance on classroom strategies, test construction, and the implementation of popular and enduring programs in the field. The book's reflective and integrative approach emphasizes the cultivation of imagination, insight, and critical thinking within everyday classrooms, fostering problem-solving attitudes and behaviors while encouraging analysis, reflection, and debate.

Throughout the text, all aspects of curriculum and instruction are approached from a tripartite perspective, dividing social studies instruction into didactic (factual), reflective (analytical), and affective (judgmental) components. These three components are interconnected, supporting one another in the development of students' understanding and ability to take stands on issues from both past and present. At the core of the author's belief lies the importance of stimulating the production of ideas, examining knowledge from multiple perspectives, and formulating personal goals, values, and beliefs that can be openly discussed and justified.

In this revised and condensed fifth edition, the book aims to enhance its user-friendliness. Additional lesson additions encourage improvisation and inquiry-based teaching and learning across various subjects. A companion website provides additional activities, lessons, and resources to support pre-service and practicing social studies teachers. By embracing this comprehensive textbook, educators can foster a love for social studies, empower students to become critical thinkers, and prepare them for success in an ever-changing world.

Weight: 740g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367459598
Edition number: 5 ed