Multicultural Social Studies: Using Local History in the Classroom - Softcover

Danker, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807745855 ISBN 13: 9780807745854

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2005

Synopsis

Focusing on the goals of student-centered learning while also attending to standards-driven mandates, this practical, “how-to” volume provides educators with a way to integrate multicultural themes into the K–12 social studies curriculum. The author demonstrates how teachers can draw on the histories of their local school communities to help students connect to broader topics in U.S. history and explore crucial themes of diversity.

Features:

• Describes ways to engage students in exploring issues of race, class, gender, religion, ethnicity, and language by studying the stories of their hometowns.
• Highlights portraits of individual communities, demonstrating how to view historical events through a multicultural lens.
• Provides model lesson plans and projects aligned with the National Standards for History and the NCSS Curriculum Guidelines for Multicultural Education.
• Shows teachers how to easily adapt the approaches modeled in the book to studies of their own school communities.

About this title

About the Author

Anita C. Danker is Associate Professor of Education at Assumption College, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807745855
• ISBN 13: 9780807745854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 197