Handbook on Teaching Social Issues

by Evans, Ronaldw; Saxe, David Warren

• ISBN13: 9780879860714
• ISBN10: 0879860715
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	v
Shirley H. Engle
PART 1 DEFINITION AND RATIONALE	1	(41)
Introduction	1	(1)
Anna S. Ochoa-Becker
1. Defining Issues-Centered Education	2	(4)
Ronald W. Evans
Fred M. Newmann
David Warren Saxe
2. Building a Rationale for Issues-Centered Education	6	(8)
Anna S. Ochoa-Becker
3. The Historical Imperative for Issues-Centered Education	14	(11)
Jack L. Nelson
4. Research on Issues-Centered Social Studies	25	(17)
Carole L. Habn
PART 2 REFLECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES	42	(57)
Introduction	42	(2)
Byron G. Massialas
5. Criteria for Issues-Centered Content Selection	44	(7)
Byron G. Massialas
6. The Engle-Ochoa Decision Making Model for Citizenship Education	51	(8)
Rodney F. Allen
7. Preparing Citizens to Participate in Public Discourse: The Public Issues Model	59	(7)
Laurel R. Singleton
James R. Giese
8. Teaching Controversial Issues through Massialas and Cox Inquiry	66	(9)
JoAnn Cutler Sweeney
Stuart Foster
9. Critical Pedagogy and Social Education	75	(6)
Cleo Cherryholmes
10. Discussion Methods in an Issues-Centered Curriculum	81	(8)
Jeff Passe
Ronald W. Evans
11. Designing Issue-Based Unit Plans	89	(10)
Joseph J. Onosko
Lee Swenson
PART 3 CULTURAL DIVERSITY	99	(31)
Introduction	99	(2)
Jesus Garcia
12. Multicultural Issues in the Classroom: Race, Class, and Gender	101	(10)
Gloria Ladson-Billings
13. Issues-Centered Education for Language-Minority Students	111	(10)
Hilda Hernandez
Devon Metzger
14. Issues-Centered Education in Multicultural Environments	121	(9)
Sharon L. Pugh
Jesus Garcia
PART 4 HISTORICAL TOPICS AND THEMES	130	(34)
Introduction	130	(2)
David Warren Saxe
15. Teaching Issues-Centered History	132	(10)
Patrick Ferguson
16. Using Issues in the Teaching of American History	142	(10)
David Warren Saxe
17. A Critical Approach to Teaching United States History	152	(9)
Ronald W. Evans
18. World History and Issues-Centered Instruction	161	(3)
Richard E. Gross
PART 5 GEOGRAPHY, GLOBAL STUDIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT	164	(33)
Introduction	164	(3)
Josiah Tlou
19. Issues-Centered Approaches to Teaching Geography Courses	167	(10)
A. David Hill
Salvatore J. Natoli
20. Issues-Centered Global Education	177	(11)
Merry M. Merryfield
Connie S. White
21. Environmentalism and Environmental Issues	188	(9)
Stephen C. Fleury
Adam Sheldon
PART 6 SOCIAL SCIENCES	197	(31)
Introduction	197	(2)
Patricia G. Avery
22. Issues-Centered Approaches to Teaching Civies and Government	199	(12)
Patricia G. Avery
John I. Sullivan
Elizabeth S. Smith
Stephen Sandell
23. An Approach to Issues-Oriented Economic Education Beverly J. Armento	211	(9)
Francis W. Rushing
Wayne A. Cook
24. Teaching Issues-Centered Anthropology, Sociology, and Psychology	220	(8)
Jerry A. Ligon
George W. Chilcoat
PART 7 AN ISSUES-CENTERED CURRICULUM	228	(48)
Introduction	228	(2)
William G. Wraga
25. An Issues-Centered Elementary Curriculum	230	(7)
Dorothy Skeel
26. Issue-Centered Curricula and Instruction at the Middle Level	237	(10)
Samuel Totten
Jon Pedersen
27. Teaching Societal Issues in School Science and Mathematics	247	(7)
Robert E. Yager
Martha V. Lutz
28. An Issues-Centered Curriculum for High School Social Studies	254	(11)
Ronald W. Evans
Jerry Brodkey
29. Teaching Societal Issues Across the Secondary Curriculum	265	(11)
William G. Wraga
PART 8 ASSESSMENT	276	(22)
Introduction	276	(4)
Walter C. Parker
30. Assessing Student Learning of an Issue-Oriented Curriculum	280	(8)
Walter C. Parker
31. Assessing Discussion of Public Issues: A Scoring Guide	288	(10)
David Harris
PART 9 TEACHER EDUCATION AND SUPERVISION	298	(18)
Introduction	298	(1)
Nancy Fichtman Dana
32. An Issues-Centered Education	299	(7)
Nancy Fichtman Dana
33. Supervision for Teacher Growth in Reflective, Issues-Centered Teaching Practice	306	(10)
Ken Jerich
PART 10 FUTURE-ORIENTED, ISSUES-CENTERED EDUCATION	316	(22)
Introduction	316	(1)
James I. Barth
34. Alternative Futures and the Social Studies	317	(10)
Wilma S. Longstreet
35. International Social Studies: Alternative Futures	327	(11)
James L. Barth
PART 11 MATERIALS AND RESOURCES	338	(42)
Introduction	338	(1)
William R. Fernekes
36. Theory and Practice of Issues-Centered Education	339	(8)
William R. Fernekes
37. Government Policy-Making Resources	347	(4)
James K. Daly
38. International Relations/Foreign Policy Teaching Resources	351	(6)
Mary E. Soley
39. Domestic Economic Policy	357	(2)
Ronald A. Banaszak
40. Bibliography on Science, Technology, and Society	359	(5)
Samuel Totten
Jon E. Pedersen
41. Road Maps for Multi-Culturalisms	364	(5)
Jane Bernard Powers
42. Global Development/Environmental Issues	369	(5)
Jeffrey L. Brown
43. Teaching about International Human Rights	374	(3)
Nancy Flowers
44. Children's Rights	377	(3)
Beverly C. Edmonds
AFTERWORD	380	(7)
James Shaver
INDEX	387	(17)
CONTRIBUTORS	404