1st Edition
Making Citizens Transforming Civic Learning for Diverse Social Studies Classrooms
1. Introduction: Transforming Social Studies Education throughMeaningful Civic Learning
2. Essentially Different: Using Essential Questions and Themes for Civic Learning
3. Talking Civics: Open Discussion in the Social Studies Classroom
4. Civic Communications: Writing and Expression for Civic Learning
5. Beyond "Current Events Fridays": Connecting Past to Present All Year Long
6. What’s the Problem? Civic Action Research in the Social Studies Classroom
Biography
Beth C. Rubin is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and, Administration at Rutgers University where she is co-coordinator of the social studies education program.
"Beth Rubin has hit a home run with Making Citizens. This theoretically rich and highly engaging book presents a bold new civics-centered curriculum approach that works. This is a must read for teachers and teacher educators who yearn for specific, vivid, research-based examples of what exemplary civic education looks like in practice. Rubin and the teachers she worked with to develop this curriculum have given our field a real gift.
--Diana E. Hess, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Beth Rubin recognizes that the political left and right agree on at least one thing: social studies curriculum and instruction matter profoundly in youth identity-formation. This is a terrific project and a much-needed demonstration of an innovative yet doable alternative to business as usual."
--Walter C. Parker, Professor and Chair of Social Studies Education and (by courtesy) Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle
