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What is Social
Studies for Diverse Learners?
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Teaches Social Studies for Diverse
Learners?
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Studies for Diverse Learners?
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Social studies is the integrated study
of the social
sciences and the humanities
to promote civic
competence. Within the school program,
social studies provides coordinated, systematic
study drawing upon such disciplines as
anthropology,
archaeology, geography, history, law, philosophy,
political science, psychology, and sociology, as
well as appropriate content from the humanities,
mathematics, and natural sciences. The
primary purpose of social studies is to help young
people develop the ability to make informed and
reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens
of a culturally diverse, democratic
society in an independent world. (NCSS
1993)
*NCSS
Definition of Social Studies
*Education for Engagement in Civil Society and
Government (1998) by John J. Patrick http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/digest.htm#newdigs
*The Concept of Citizenship in Education for
Democracy (1999) by John J. Patrick http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/digest.htm#newdigs
*Libraries and Democracy (1996) by Laura A.
Pinhey http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/digest.htm#newdigs
*Creating Effective Citizens- NCSS Position
Statement http://databank.ncss.org/index.php?topic=positions
*Teaching for
Democracy by Elizabeth Yeager
*Social Science Content
Areas and Key Concepts
Read Wolk (Chapters 1-5)
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