Young Citizens of the World

Teaching Elementary Social Studies through Civic Engagement

Marilynne Boyle-Baise, Jack Zevin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135019372
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Young Citizens of the World takes a clear stance: Social studies is about citizenship education that is informed, deliberative, and activist—citizenship not only as a noun, something one studies, but as a verb, something one DOES. Its holistic, multicultural approach is based on this clear curricular and pedagogical purpose. Straightforward, engaging, and highly interactive, the book encourages students (and their teachers) to become informed, think it through, and take action. Each chapter is written as a civic engagement which is teacher-ready for use in elementary classrooms. A set of six teaching strategies that are constructive, inquiry-driven, dramatic, and deliberative bring the curricular framework to life through intensive, integrated meaningful studies of special places, important people, and significant times. Readers are invited to rehearse the projects in their social studies education courses and then to reinterpret them for their classrooms. The projects are supported by important resources for teaching, including supportive children's literature, links to internet sites, and visual sources and by a Companion Website that enhances and extends the text.

Index

Note: Page numbers in italics indicate figures; those with “n” indicate footnotes.

Abernathy, Ralph 101

Acredolo, L. 152

adaptation 49

Afghanistan for Kids 55, 55n4

Aillaud, Cindy Lou 166

Ajmera, Maya 165–166

Alleman, J. 4, 5, 126, 130

Alliance for Service-Learning in Educational Reform (ASLER) 182n1

American Beekeeping Federation 133

AmeriCorps 188

anthology 97

Anthony, Susan B. 77, 78

apiaries 134–135, 133–137

Arizona Geographic Alliance 152

Arizona GeoLiteracy Program 152–153

Armadillo from Amarillo (Cherry) 164

Aronson, Marc 64

assimilation 49

As the Crow Flies (Hartman) 167

Audacity 61, 61n20

Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) (Howard) 104, 197

awareness, geographic 149–150

Azbell, Joe 116

Backyard History Book (Weitzman) 96

Ballot Box Battle, The (McCully) 79, 80

Barber, Benjamin 22

Bartholomew and the Oobleck (Seuss) 151, 169–170

Barton, Keith 71, 73, 75, 76, 98

Bass, Jules 133

Bausum, Ann 74

Beatrice’s Goat (McBrier) 200

becoming informed: biography workshop 104–106, 111–116; Carpettime Democracy 31–33; classroom meetings 35–37; economics 131–138; Exploration 166–168; Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (film) 111; Passport Project 57–60; Pen Pal Program 53–55; Storm 169–165; What’s for Lunch 61–64, 63, 64–65; Women’s Suffrage Movement 80–86, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86; World Address 158–161

Be My Neighbor 150, 165–166

Best Beekeeper in Lalibela: A Tale from Africa, The (Kessler) 134

Bickmore, K. 47

Bieber, Justin 140

Big Economic Ideas 127–128

Big Powerful Ideas 154

Billig, Shelley 189n3

biography workshop 95–121; assessing biography 119; becoming informed 104–106, 111–116; Cooperative Biography 113; history as people’s lives 98; history fiction 98; life-stories and 96–97; litera...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Brief Contents
• Table of Contents
• Prologue: Dare to be Different
• Preface: Why this Book?
• Acknowledgments
• One. Citizenship as a Verb: Teaching Democracy-in-Action
• Two. Democracy Project: Empowering Student Voice
• Three. Worldview: Developing World-mindedness
• Four. History Mystery: Rediscovering our Past
• Five. Biography Workshop: Composing Citizen’s Life Stories
• Six. Supermarket: Making Everyday Economic Choices
• Seven. Explore: Investigating Place and Space
• Eight. Engage: Living One’s Civics
• About the Authors
• References
• Index