Social Education articles from October 2000

Social Education archives from October 2000

Editor's Notebook.(Review)
October 1, 2000... WITH THE RIGHT teaching methods, it is possible to engage and educate students in social studies classes that they will remember long after they leave school. Many articles in this issue show that this can be as true in schools where teachers...

Victory at home and Abroad: The Tuskegee Airmen Research Project and Seminar.
October 1, 2000... I will always remember the day when high school sophomore Drew Brashaw gave a noontime address to the Rotary Club in Dubuque, Iowa. There he stood at the podium, resplendent in his black hobnailed boots and jeans, a black Rage Against the...

Thoughts on Wise Practice in the Teaching of Social Studies.
October 1, 2000... RESEARCHERS have sometimes noted the lack of a rich "history of practice" in teaching--including the teaching of social studies. Lee Shulman, for one, has pointed to the rarity of well-developed portrayals of how teachers manage ideas, and not...

The Geography of Connection: Bringing the World to Students.
October 1, 2000... "THAT'S DUMB, MISS!" Teachers who hear this comment from their students often wonder how to make any lesson interesting and engaging. A special challenge faces geography teachers in low-income urban areas or rural communities where poverty...

California Dreams in Southeast Baltimore: Using Technology in a Challenging School Setting.
October 1, 2000... AN ARGUMENT EXISTS that the primary purpose of public schools is to serve as a mechanism of socialization for the dominant culture.(1) Through this mechanism, students are apprenticed in the expectations of the "real world," and classrooms...

Transforming the Spirit of Teaching Through Wise Practice: Observations of Two Alabama Social Studies Teachers.
October 1, 2000... DEFINING WISE PRACTICE in teaching can be elusive. One glance through an academic database is enough to convince anyone that wise practice is a concept claimed by any number of individuals and/or institutions. In most case studies of wise...

On Display: Preservice Teachers in the Museum.
October 1, 2000... Students at Baylor University, a private Southern Baptist school, are occasionally accused of "living in a bubble" far removed from the real world. In an effort to make social studies education authentic and innovative, our field-based methods...

"Dismantling the Wall, One Brick at a Time": Overcoming Barriers to Parochialism in Social Studies Classrooms.
October 1, 2000... VETERAN EIGHTH GRADE social studies educator Geri Collins teaches children whose lives are, for the most part, reasonably sheltered, comfortable, and insular. The educational context she encounters differs greatly from that found in school...

Writing about Immigration: Authentic Assessment for U.S. History Students.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2000... LIKE MOST URBAN SCHOOLS, Roosevelt Senior High School in Minneapolis faces many challenges--a high rate of absenteeism, a large number of students living in poverty, and an increasing number of students who take English as a Second Language....

ELECTION 2000: The Keys Point to Gore.
October 1, 2000... TO UNDERSTAND what is really going on in the presidential election of 2000 it is first necessary to ignore the ubiquitous polls and the day-to-day coverage of the campaign. Presidential elections are not decided by how well candidates perform...

The E-citizen.
October 1, 2000... THE CITIZENSHIP RATIONALE for teaching social studies was well articulated by NCSS in 1992, when it defined social studies as "the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence:" Teaching for civic...

U.S. Supreme Court Trends.
October 1, 2000... THE 73 CASES decided by the Supreme Court during the 1999-2000 term included more headline-grabbing decisions than any term in recent memory. Yet, as the following selections suggest, the sum total of the Court's work--especially in the...

WE THE STUDENTS: SUPREME COURT CASES FOR AND ABOUT STUDENTS.(Review)
October 1, 2000... WE THE STUDENTS: SUPREME COURT CASES FOR AND ABOUT STUDENTS Jamin B. Raskin Washington, D.C: CQ Press, 2000 PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by their very nature, have been hotbeds for constitutional litigation over the years. As public spaces where values...