Curriculum and Instruction: Social Studies

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Welcome to Curriculum and Instruction: Social Studies Catalog 2012 showing you our new titles and key backlist.

We are pleased to present to you, a wide range of key titles. To browse our full catalog please click on our specific titles in areas of social studies education.

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  1. The Political Classroom

    Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education

    By Diana E. Hess, Paula McAvoy

    Series: Critical Social Thought

    Most people agree that schools should prepare young people for democratic life. Yet in the United States there has never been agreement on what types of skills, dispositions, and knowledge ought to be taught, nor even agreement on how they should be taught. Grounded in thick empirical description...

    To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Making Citizens

    Transforming Civic Learning for Diverse Social Studies Classrooms

    By Beth C. Rubin

    Can social studies classrooms be effective "makers" of citizens if much of what occurs in these classrooms does little to prepare young people to participate in the civic and political life of our democracy? Making Citizens illustrates how social studies can recapture its civic purpose through an...

    Published June 27th 2011 by Routledge

  3. Teaching History with Museums

    Strategies for K-12 Social Studies

    By Alan Marcus, Jeremy Stoddard, Walter W. Woodward

    Teaching History with Museums provides an introduction and overview of the rich pedagogical power of museums. In this comprehensive textbook, the authors show how museums offer a sophisticated understanding of the past and develop habits of mind in ways that are not easily duplicated in the...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge

  4. Teaching History with Film

    Strategies for Secondary Social Studies

    By Alan S. Marcus, Scott Alan Metzger, Richard J. Paxton, Jeremy D. Stoddard

    Visit any school in the United States and chances are that you will find at least one of the social studies teachers showing a film about history. Along with the textbook, movies are one of the most prominent teaching aids in the history classroom. Yet, when middle and high school history teachers...

    Published January 28th 2010 by Routledge

  5. Instructional Strategies for Middle and Secondary Social Studies

    Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management

    By Bruce E. Larson, Timothy A. Keiper

    Instructional Strategies for Middle and Secondary Social Studies is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies. Writing explicitly for pre-service social studies teachers, veteran teacher educators Bruce E....

    Published February 8th 2011 by Routledge

  6. Gaming the Past

    Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History

    By Jeremiah McCall

    Despite the growing number of books designed to radically reconsider the educational value of video games as powerful learning tools, there are very few practical guidelines conveniently available for prospective history and social studies teachers who actually want to use these teaching and...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge