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1. A Learning Community in the Primary Classroom

   By Jere Brophy, Janet Alleman, Barbara Knighton

   This richly detailed description and analysis of exemplary teaching in the primary grades looks at how a teacher establishes her classroom as a collaborative learning community, how she plans curriculum and instruction that features powerful ideas and applications to life outside of school, and how...

   Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge
2. Inside the Social Studies Classroom

   By Jere Brophy, Janet Alleman, Barbara Knighton

   EDUCATION/ SOCIAL STUDIES "… a much-needed addition to elementary social studies that will move the field ahead." Keith C. Barton, University of Cincinnati "This text fills a valuable niche and should quickly become a leading reference for teachers and teacher educators." Linda S. Levstik,...

   Published July 21st 2008 by Routledge
3. Children's Thinking About Cultural Universals

   By Jere Brophy, Janet Alleman

   Drawing on interview data, the authors describe K-3 students' knowledge and thinking about basic aspects of the social world that are addressed in the elementary social studies curriculum. The interviews focused on human activities relating to nine cultural universals that are commonly addressed in...

   Published September 6th 2005 by Routledge