Examines, with power and warmth, the obiligations and achievements of social studies in meeting the moral, life-or-death crisis in which we are all involved. (JB)

The author, in reviewing his early formal experience as a social studies teacher, reflects on the permanent values and importance of social education. Geography, which has played such a key role in his own writing, is singled out as being of fundamental significance. (JB)

After briefly reviewing the conception of the term social studies", the author turns to a discussion of present and future curriculum in terms of the increasing use of social studies projects and the position, expectations, and relevance of history. (JB)

As President of NCSS, the author urges the membership to accept the goal of social studies as education for citizenship, and to make the necessary commitment in that direction as a professional organization. (JB)

An historical review of the journal and a consideration of its functions and responsibilities to the social studies profession. (JB)

By quantitative sampling of various characteristics of Social Education" content during the last four decades, certain trends in the journal and the field are revealed. Speculation and interpretation supplement the raw data, leading to a final challenge that the journal provide not only current awareness, but prime choices for stimulating change.…

Questions and activities using still pictures, audio materials, simulations and games, popular arts, literature in the new social studies projects are given. Combinations of the right kind of media around fundamental human issues may help students get meaningful answers to the questions posed in the history classroom. (VW)

Without new goals and novel strategies, black history will become another fleeting fad. The author offers a rationale and illustrates how black history can be taught as an integral part of a modern social studies curriculum which is spiral, conceptual, and interdisciplinary, and emphasizes decision-making and social action skills. (Author/VW)

An instrument was designed for student evaluation of presidential greatness. (VW)