1st Edition

Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom

218 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

218 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

218 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" – prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to understand different perspectives to participate in an increasingly diverse, multicultural global society.... Read more

Introduction: Social Studies as New Literacies for Living in a Global Society
Part I: Reconceptualizing Social Studies: Frameworks and Tools 1. The Role of Social Studies in "New Times" 2. Teaching and Learning in New Times: Challenges and Possibilities 3. Web-based Technology Tools to Guide Inquiry
Part II: Exploring and Examining Challenges and Possibilities: Windows into Classrooms 4. Collaboratively Negotiating the Challenge of Locating Reliable, Readable, and Useful Sources With Rindi Baildon 5. Examining the Claims and Credibility of a Complicated Multimodal Web-based Text 6. The Challenge of Synthesizing Web-based Information in an Inquiry-based Social Studies Classroom 7. Part I: Identifying What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Progressive Knowledge Building in an Inquiry Community With Anne Elsener 8. Part II: Identifying What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Progressive Knowledge Building in an Inquiry Community With Anne Elsener Part III: Synthesis and Implications 9. Social Studies as New Literacies: Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom