This paper describes the development of a high school social studies course, Citizenship and World Affairs. Course development involved two forms of reflection: deliberative and personalistic. The author's deliberative reflection, reported in part one of the paper, began as he reviewed research regarding how teachers should foster citizenship…

An elementary social studies program should help a child develop an awareness of significant personal social values. Values pertinent to the child from age 4 to 11 are pointed out. Four principle activities in which the child must engage to develop each of these values into behavioral patterns are discussed. (Author/RM)

Described is a method for valuing in the social studies classroom. Students should be allowed to explore and draw their own conclusions. The teacher, encouraging and guiding self examination, should demand rationality and reasoning rather than the acceptance of specific conclusions judged of worth by himself and the school system. (Author)

The fact that curriculum content represents interpretations and values linked to certain groups rather gives it a potential for enhancing interests and of being a political tool. General questions to help students see that issues represent conflicting value positions held by interest groups are included. (RM)

Describes recent cases of high school book banning illustrating patterns of censorship in the United States. The author examines reasons for book banning, the motivations behind this kind of censorship, and the ideological orientation of groups responsible for it. A bibliography of information on censorship is included. (AM)

This paper evaluates the extent to which the implementation and assessment of the new citizenship curriculum in England treats learners as citizens or subjects by evaluating whether the interests of state or citizen predominate. Philosophical, contextual, and practical perspectives on citizenship education are drawn upon to evaluate mechanisms…

Based on a paper presented at the 1968 forum of the National Conference on Social Welfare.

Taking account of cultural reality through differential curriculum development is proposed as one way to counter the effects of the age of indifference" in Australian and other societies. (DM)

The article describes an approach to infusing human dignity into the social studies curriculum through (1) planned instruction, (2) teacher-child interaction, and (3) school responses to unacceptable behavior. Recommended practices for each of the three components are offered. (DB)

Teachers who endeavor to build tolerant attitudes in their students often fall into the trap of political correctness. Political correctness can suspend free reflection on the differences inherent in otherness, which is the subject of tolerance, and creates an ideology of the generalized, abstract Other. As a result, teachers prefer to talk about…

In this article, the author describes how he developed a lesson that asks students to reflect upon different definitions and criteria for "citizenship" and to think critically about what makes a "good citizen." The lesson uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines standards of social studies education (including basic questions about…

This article presents some of those premises the author believes are significant to the study of law, coupled with some classroom strategies for elementary education designed to examine those premises. (Author/JR)

This paper takes the position that if value inquiry in the social studies is to become something more than a mere "fad" it will have to be grounded upon a sound rationale from which appropriate curricular design and teaching strategies can be developed. The paper then proceeds to offer a rationale for a social studies program organized in a manner…

Contains six responses to two questions concerning high school book censorship and the application of dominant community values to the selection of instructional materials in public education. (AM)

"Ivy-clad towers" in academia still exist today and always, they require their students to spend considerable time in community service to learn about social justice. The poor almost seem to exist so that academics can study them or so that university students can elevate their own consciousness by serving them for a short period. As…