Reports results of a survey of professional literature, curriculum guides, textbook advertisements, and newspaper articles from World War II era in order to assess response of social studies educators to crisis of World War II and effect of the war on the social studies curriculum. Concludes that rapid curriculum change resulted in response to the…

Notes deficiencies of the often-used claim that social studies education ought to promote justice. Explores three conceptions of justice and concludes by examining the paradox that these three conceptions reveal between justice considered as a psychological state of individuals and justice conceived as an expression of the way a society is…

Delineates three prevailing positions in social education theory: (1) traditional (positivist), (2) liberal/neoliberal, and (3) radical. Argues that the analysis of these positions provides a more powerful understanding of such issues as indoctrination and student selection of social problems to be studied. (JDH)

Reviews articles defining the social studies. States that social studies lacks integrity as a separate field in its own right due to its broad aims. Proposes that the social sciences be used to provide constraints on the aims of social studies. Provides examples of aims limited by scholarly parameters for selected social sciences. (JDH)

Reports the results of a survey of 139 secondary social studies teachers and 96 supervising principals to determine their perceptions of the instructional concerns and problems. Results showed both teachers and supervising principals were more concerned with student motivation, classroom management, discipline, and teaching methods than with…

Reports the results of a survey of 25 Indiana social studies educators involved in teaching social studies methods courses. Data were collected on demographic characteristics, early socialization experiences, educational backgrounds, career histories, values orientations, political views, perceptions of curriculum materials, and goals of the…

Reports the results of a quasi-experimental study designed to assess the effects of values development lessons on students' self-reported attitudes and behaviors. Results showed that the 48 10- to 15-year-old students involved in the study improved in the behavioral measure but not on the self-report scales. (JDH)

Examines literature from several fields that supports the four roles teachers may take during the discussion of controversial issues: exclusive neutrality, exclusive partiality, neutral impartiality, and committed impartiality. Maintains that committed impartiality is the most defensible teacher role. (Author/JDH)

Examines the research on social studies curriculum's influence on the social, moral, and political attitudes of youth. Argues that present lines of research are ineffective and recommends that descriptive research on exemplary programs become a major research priority. (JDH)

Reviews the research basis supporting 11 questioning practices which are positively correlated with higher achievement on specified learning outcomes. Draws implications for future research in questioning. (JDH)

Reports the results of a nine-month ethnographic investigation of social interactions among 138 sixth graders using microcomputers. Notes that boys took the leadership role; that teachers tended to ability group for computer instruction; and that direct instruction, total group teaching prevailed. (JDH)

Sets an agenda for improving instructional research conducted with classical quantitative experimental or quasi-experimental methodology. Includes guidelines regarding the role of a social perspective, adequate conceptual and operational definition, quality instrumentation, control of threats to internal and external validity, and the use of…

Reviews the life and works of early Australian music educator, Samuel McBurney. Born in 1847 in Glasgow, Scotland, McBurney emigrated to Australia in 1870. Features his work with preschool children and the blind and includes four examples of his songs for young children. (JDH)

Compares the performances of equivalent groups of six- and eight- year-olds in the United Kingdom and the United States on pitch transposition and rhythmic inversion music conservation tasks. Results showed older students outperformed younger. Maintains Piagetian explanations of results are inadequate. (Author/JDH)

Investigated the tempo note preferences of 100 randomly selected college-level musicians using familiar orchestral music as stimuli. Subjects heard selections at increased, decreased, and unaltered tempi. Results showed musicians were not accurate in estimating original tempo and showed consistent preference for faster than actual tempo.…