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ERIC Number: EJ492066
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
Post-Cold War Social Studies: Some Ideas for Changing the Way Students Think about the World.
Wheeler, Ron
Social Education, v58 n5 p287-89 Sep 1994
Asserts that the end of the Cold War and new world realities present challenges to social studies teachers. Presents suggestions for helping students change their way of thinking about the world and the place of the United States within it. Encourages teachers to examine the existing social studies curriculum for relevance. (CFR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, History Instruction, International Relations, International Trade, Nationalism, Political Science, Social Change, Social Studies, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, World History
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Cold War; European Union; Israel; Mexico; North American Free Trade Agreement; Russia; United Nations; USSR