R&L Education
Pages: 212
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-57886-700-4 • Paperback • June 2008 • $32.00 • (£22.95)
Gayle Mindes is professor of education at DePaul University in Chicago.
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Power of Social Studies
Chapter 2 Moral Development, Character Education, and the Social Studies
Chapter 3 Teaching and Learning Social Studies in the Age of State Standards and Head Start Outcomes
Chapter 4 The Context of Culture in Teaching Social Studies
Chapter 5 Perspectives on Positive Classroom Practices
Chapter 6 Multimedia, the World, and Young Children
Chapter 7 Assessing the Accomplishment of Learning in the Social Studies
Chapter 8 Knitting It All Together
[This book] draws from child development principles to advise teachers in the creation of curricula that take advantage of each learner's own experience to teach big concepts. In this volume, Mindes discusses theory and practices for teaching social studies (history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, geography, political science) to young children in an increasingly globalizing society. She discusses the opportunity offered by these disciplines for exploring personal ethics and teaching the notion of world citizenship. She addresses the mandates of No Child Left Behind and similar programs, the role of culture in social learning, using and teaching multimedia, the Anti-Bias Curriculum, and the importance of multicultural perspectives. Activities and review questions to aid reader understanding are included.
— Reference & Research Book News, February 2007