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ERIC Number: EJ401459
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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Challenging the Expanding Environment Model of Teaching Elementary Social Studies.
Palmer, Jesse
Southern Social Studies Quarterly, v15 n1 p17-28 Fall 1989
Looks at criticism of the Expanding Environments Model in the elementary school social studies curriculum. Cites recent reports that recommend a history-centered elementary curriculum. States that teaching methods may be the cause of historical, civic, and geographic illiteracy rather than the Expanding Environments Model. (LS)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Problems, Educational History, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, History Instruction, Social Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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