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…

One of the first women in the field of teacher education, Emma Hart Willard trained many young women at the Troy Female Seminary. Willard held an integrated view of social science education. Her interests and views in geography, history, and citizenship education were more typical of the 1960's than the early 1800's, the period of her major work.…

Summarizes the burgeoning literature on teacher cognition, focusing on teachers as mediators of the social studies curriculum. Describes teachers as professionals who bring intellectual and moral agency to their work with children, the social studies curriculum, and the milieu of schooling. Reviews three studies which represent this research…