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Duplass, James A.; Cruz, Barbara C. – Social Studies, 2010
Recent changes in accreditation standards now require professors to systematically assess whether a teacher candidate actually possesses a "disposition" appropriate to the profession. This new mandate from accreditation bodies is controversial on a number of fronts. As social studies educators in particular, we like to think of ourselves as…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Social Studies, Accreditation (Institutions), Faculty
Burstein, Joyce H. – Social Studies, 2009
Concerned with combining theory with practice, the author, a teacher educator, wrote a grant to combine teaching university social studies methods and teaching sixth-grade social studies in an urban professional development site (PDS). By combining both roles, she created a recursive process of theory, observation, analysis, coteaching, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Load, Teacher Educators
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Griffith, Anthony D. – Social Studies, 1990
Discusses the role of social studies education in a developing nation, both in theory, and as it is practiced in the English-speaking Caribbean. Diagrams a dynamic for teaching social studies in developing societies. Contends that social studies education has a unique role to play in the enterprise of nation building. (DB)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Developing Nations, Development, Educational Development
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Shaver, James P. – Social Studies, 1989
Reviews the constraints on implementing an issue-centered approach to social studies education and argues that schools play an important role in socializing students into society. Concludes that advocates of new theories of social studies education must take into account the realities of contemporary school and society. (SLM)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Problems, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Foster, Ellen J. – Social Studies, 2010
As part of a geography-based minority recruiting program (MRP), teachers were asked to serve as mentors for teams of high school students interested in both postsecondary education and geography as a major discipline or career path. The goal was to determine whether teacher participation in MRP programs was an effective tool to mentor…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Summer Programs, Teacher Participation, Mentors
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Zevin, Jack – Social Studies, 1990
Analyzes the "Handbook of Research on Social Studies Teaching and Learnings'" section on teachers. Focuses on research on teaching, history of teaching, and teacher education, characteristics, and competence in the social studies field. Concludes the handbook reveals the impoverished nature of research on social studies teaching,…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Research Problems
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Sweeney, Jo Ann Cutler; Garrett, Alan W. – Social Studies, 1990
Summarizes reviews of research reports on classroom practice in the "Handbook of Research on Social Studies Teaching and Learning." Examines textbooks, instructional grouping, teaching methods, and computer-assisted instruction (especially games and simulations), and civic education through student participation in community programs.…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Community Programs