Annotation Contributors from around the US examine such issues as defining social studies, climates of constraint and restraint on teachers and teaching, commit

The authors of the nine other chapters in this book have struggled with the issues discussed above in several different ways. The chapter authors represent a wi

Through rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a comple

Taken together, these authors explore the many and varied challenges faced by teacher educators generally, and social studies teacher educators specifically. Th

In this volume teacher educators explicitly and implicitly share their visions for the purposes, experiences, and commitments necessary for social studies teach