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Education

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Designs for Learning: Social Science

SECONDARY

SUMMER SESSION

1983 ?

INSTRUCTOR: Ed Harrison

Tuesday & Thursday,

5:30 - 9:20 ?

LOCATION: on campus

INTENTS: - investigate various curriculum designs and teaching strategies

for the social studies;

- examine specific curriculum areas and social studies materials

and projects;

- discuss selected issues relative to Social Studies in British

Columbia.

OUTLINE OF TOPICS:

1.

Introduction to the Social Studies:

those things that are social and worthy of study;

- sources for social studies content.

2.

Reflections on classroom strategies;

- types of strategies;

- use of strategies in various classroom settings;

- advantages and disadvantages of representative strategies.

3.

Provincial Curriculum Review:

- history of British Columbia Social Studies Curriculum;

- elementary and secondary;

- content and orientation of the curriculum;

- prescribed materials.

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Using social studies strategies in the classroom:

- strategy investigation and application to specific content area

in the form of unit development.

5.

Special topics:

- a conceptual approach to teaching and learning of social studies;

- an inquiry approach to the teaching and learning of social studies.

6.

Questioning strategies and the social studies teacher.

7.

Establishing teacher - student relationships.

8.

Representative social studies materials and projects for the classroom.

ASSIGNMENTS:

1.

An investigation of one classroom strategy

2.

Unit development

3.

Reflective pieces: - social studies and the school curriculum;

- major problems with existing social studies

materials - what are they and what could they be.

TWO TEXTS: (recommended) Whose Culture? Whose Heritage? Werner,

Connors, Aoki

&

Dahlie. Centre for Curriculum

Studies, University of British Columbia.

(on reserve) Wright, I. ?

Elementary Social Studies.