Teaching Social Studies That Matters: Curriculum for Active Learning

✍ Scribed by Stephen J. Thornton, Nel Noddings

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and teaching methods in order for effective instruction to occur.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Making Social Studies Matter......Page 14
1. Why Gatekeeping Matters More Than Curriculum Change......Page 23
Defining Social Studies......Page 24
Aims Talk......Page 30
Subject Matter and Methods......Page 35
Student Interest and Effort......Page 37
Emergence of Social Studies as a School Subject......Page 40
Where Should the Curriculum Developer Begin?......Page 43
Social Studies as Social Science: The Survey of American History......Page 45
Social Studies as Social Education: Problems of Democracy......Page 52
Aims Talk Matters......Page 58
The Student as a Source of Aims......Page 61
Society as a Source of Aims......Page 65
Scholarship as a Source of Aims......Page 67
4. Toward a Balanced and Flexible Curriculum......Page 70
Conceptualizing Curriculum Planning......Page 71
Connections Between Goals and Subject Matter......Page 72
Teachers and the Curriculum......Page 80
Curriculum Reconsidered......Page 82
Curriculum Reform and the Neglect of Methods......Page 86
From Curriculum to Method......Page 90
Principled Selection of Methods......Page 93
Lesson Types......Page 95
Conclusion......Page 100
6. Educating the Educators......Page 101
Subject-Matter Preparation......Page 102
Obstacles to Effective Methods Courses......Page 110
Toward More Effective Methods......Page 112
Method and Curriculum Materials......Page 114
Conclusion......Page 116
7. Enactment of Curriculum That Matters......Page 117
References......Page 122
C......Page 136
H......Page 137
N......Page 138
S......Page 139
W......Page 140
About the Author......Page 142