Young Citizens of the World: Teaching Elementary Social Studies through Civic Engagement

Young Citizens of the World takes a clear stance: Social studies is about citizenship education that is informed deliberative and activistcitizenship 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 childrens literature links to internet sites and visual sources and by a Companion Website that enhances and extends the text.