Social Education articles from November 2007

Social Education archives from November 2007

Editor's notebook.
November 1, 2007... This issue's contributors have a flair for selecting distinctive and challenging topics, and their articles offer novel insights into some of the more interesting times, places and issues in the social studies. In the Teaching with...

Teaching about Global Warming.(Letter)
November 1, 2007... After reading From Banished to Brother Outsider, Miss Navajo to An Inconvenient Truth; Documentary Films as Perspective-Laden Narratives from the May/June 2007 issue of Social Education, I became disheartened when the author did not mention the...

1889 consular dispatch from Baghdad.(Teaching with Documents)
November 1, 2007... In the late summer of 1888, officials at the U.S. Department of State appointed John Henry Haynes of Rowe, Massachusetts, to become the first U.S. consul in Baghdad. At that time, Baghdad--along with all of present day Iraq--was part of the...

Puritan day: a social science simulation.
November 1, 2007... Good teaching ideas have the potential to lead to many spheres of inquiry, as well as to bring a school community together. This is what happened when we initiated "Puritan Day" at the Village Community School (VCS) for our eighth grade classes...

"Degrees of freedom:" a five-part framework for school leadership.
November 1, 2007... A few years ago, a reporter for The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, asked a number of local elementary school children why the United States celebrates the Fourth of July. Most of the answers were predictably personal. "So we can...

Chew Heong v. United States: Chinese Exclusion and the Federal Courts.(Looking at the Law)
November 1, 2007... This article is adapted from Chew Heong v. United States: Chinese Exclusion and the Federal Courts, written by Lucy Salyer, associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, for inclusion in the Federal Judicial Center's...

Media construction of presidential campaigns.
November 1, 2007... Our next president will likely be the candidate who crafts the best "impression" in the media. It is our job as social studies teachers to help students separate impressions from substance and to understand the role that media play in crafting...

The great communicator files.
November 1, 2007... Each president has his own style. We've all seen this reflected in the speeches which presidents give--whether it's delivering a highly formal address such as the "State of the Union," making informal remarks at a stop on a campaign tour, or...

Crossing borders and building bridges using the internet.(Surfing the Net)(Essay)
November 1, 2007... First, an introductory remark: On Sunday, September 9, I was interviewed on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday by Liane Hansen on what textbooks say about the 9/11 attacks and about the war in Iraq. I broadened the topic to include...

Humanities and the social studies: studying the civil war through the third space.
November 1, 2007... The mood in our class is barely-contained restlessness among my squirmy eighth graders--a group of students eagerly anticipating their winter break, but willing to give me some of their attention during our final meeting before the mad dash to...

Researching the Viet Nam War inside Viet Nam: U.S. student teachers explore war myths.
November 1, 2007... "There is no other country in the world where there is such a large gap between the sophisticated understanding of some professional historians and the basic education given by teachers."--Marc Ferro (1) ********** It is time for...