Social Education articles from March 2001

Social Education archives from March 2001

Editor's Notebook.
March 1, 2001... EACH ARTICLE in this issue of Social Education, whether its focus is global, historic or pedagogical, focuses on a dramatic challenge. Our contributors deal with environmental problems that threaten the future of nations, the tragic situation...

Observing the First World Refugee Day: June 20, 2001.
March 1, 2001... FEAH LIVED WITH HER MOTHER, father, three younger brothers and one younger sister in the West African nation of Sierra Leone. She was thirteen years old the day armed rebel soldiers suddenly arrived at the family's plantation in 1998. Feah and...

NCSS 2001 SUMMER WORKSHOPS.
March 1, 2001... 1 National Issues Forum: Deliberative Discussion for Secondary Schools JUNE 25-27, 2001, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NY In National Issues Forums discussions, students are engaged in the collective exploration of issues. They learn to...

Global Warming and Ozone Layer Depletion: STS Issues for Social Studies Classrooms.
March 1, 2001... "THAT'S DEPRESSING!" remarked a preservice teacher about the likely consequences of China and India achieving the energy-intensive lifestyle of the United States. She had just been looking at the record of average surface temperatures of the...

Environmental Awareness and Environmental Education in Myanmar.
March 1, 2001... THE WORLDWIDE GROWTH in environmental awareness over the past thirty years has been accompanied by a parallel recognition of the need for environmental education (EE). Government policies concerning the environment and sustainable development...

RUSSIA: The State of Education at the Turn of the Century.
March 1, 2001... Neatly-attired, studious youngsters; dedicated and energetic, yet impoverished, teachers; shoddily constructed schools; scantily provisioned classrooms; and low-budget texts. These are some of my most vivid images of schools in a region deep in...

What Can Be Done to Encourage Civic Engagement in Youth?
March 1, 2001... WHAT CAN BE DONE to encourage civic engagement in youth? The observations here draw on a ten-year study of citizenship education that I conducted in five countries: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United...

Classroom Discussion: Models for Leading Seminars and Deliberations.
March 1, 2001... IT IS NO WONDER that conscientious teachers are forever trying to engage their students in discussion. Both democracy and understanding rely on it--democracy because forging public policy together is the basic labor of popular sovereignty, and...

Letter from House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to President Richard M. Nixon.
March 1, 2001... Teaching with Documents IN THE LATE SUMMER of 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy. In October, he was...

A PROFILE OF ELEMENTARY SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS AND THEIR CLASSROOMS.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN excellent teachers of social studies in the elementary schools, and today is no exception. Many teachers are working hard to provide elementary students with high quality, meaningful social studies instruction. At the...

TEACH ME! KIDS WILL LEARN WHEN OPPRESSION IS THE LESSON.(Review)
March 1, 2001... TEACH ME! KIDS WILL LEARN WHEN OPPRESSION IS THE LESSON. Murray Levin. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998. 152pp. $23.00 (Expanded paperback edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 176pp. $18.95) ON THE CLOSING PAGE of this...