Handbook on Teaching Social Issues: 2nd edition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1648025641 ISBN 13: 9781648025648

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

The Handbook on Teaching Social Issues, 2nd edition, provides teachers and teacher educators with a comprehensive guide to teaching social issues in the classroom. This second edition re-frames the teaching of social issues with a dedicated emphasis on issues of social justice. It raises the potential for a new and stronger focus on social issues instruction in schools. Contributors include many of the leading experts in the field of social studies education. Issues-centered social studies is an approach to teaching history, government, geography, economics and other subject related courses through a focus on persistent social issues. The emphasis is on problematic questions that need to be addressed and investigated in-depth to increase social understanding, active participation, and social progress. Questions or issues may address problems of the past, present, or future, and involve disagreement over facts, definitions, values, and beliefs arising in the study of any of the social studies disciplines, or other aspects of human affairs. The authors and editor believe that this approach should be at the heart of social studies instruction in schools.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648025641
• ISBN 13: 9781648025648
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 402
• Editor: Evans Ronald W.