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The Student and the Secondary Social Studies Curriculum.
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Egan, Kieran – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1978
Offers a set of principles that should govern the composition of secondary school social studies curriculum as related to the developing and changing forms of cognition in secondary students. Discusses the "romantic" and "philosophic" stages of the secondary student's development and outlines curriculum implications for each stage. (KC)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Developmental Stages