Handbook of Research on Social Studies Education

by Levstik,Linda

• ISBN13: 9780805855357
• ISBN10: 0805855351
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This Handbook outlines the current state of research in social studies education - a complex, dynamic, challenging field with competing perspectives about appropriate goals, and on-going conflict over the content of the curriculum. Equally important, it encourages new research in order to advance the field and foster civic competence; long maintained by advocates for the social studies as a fundamental goal. In considering how to organize the Handbook , the editors searched out definitions of social studies, statements of purpose, and themes that linked (or divided) theory, research, and practices and established criteria for topics to include. Each chapter meets one or more of these criteria: research activity since the last Handbook that warrants a new analysis, topics representing a major emphasis in the NCSS standards, and topics reflecting an emerging or reemerging field within the social studies. The volume is organized around seven themes: Change and Continuity in Social Studies Civic Competence inPluralist Democracies Social Justice and the Social Studies Assessment and Accountability Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines Information Ecologies: Technology in the Social Studies Teacher Preparation and Development The Handbook of Research in Social Studies is a must-have resource for all beginning and experienced researchers in the field.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Continuity and change in social studies
Continuity and change in social studies curriculum	p. 15
Early elementary social studies	p. 33
What happens in social studies classrooms? Research on K-12 social studies practice	p. 50
Civic competence in pluralist democracies
Knowing and doing in democratic citizenship education	p. 65
International political socialization research	p. 81
Service-learning	p. 109
Controversial issues and democratic discourse	p. 124
Diversity and citizenship education: Historical, theoretical, and philosophical issues	p. 137
Social justice and the social studies
Social justice and the social studies	p. 155
Gender and sexuality in the social studies	p. 172
Global education	p. 197
Assessment and accountability
Assessment and accountability in the social studies	p. 219
Teaching and learning in the disciplines
Research on students' ideas about history	p. 239
Research on K-12 geography education	p. 259
Recent research on the teaching and learning of pre-collegiate economics	p. 284
Information ecologies: Technology in the social studies
Technology and social studies	p. 307
Teacher preparation and development
The education of social studies teachers	p. 329
The professional development of social studies teachers	p. 352
Author Index	p. 373
Subject Index	p. 389
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