Leaders in Social Education : Intellectual Self-Portraits / / edited by Christine Woyshner.

• Superior document: Leaders in Educational Studies
• HerausgeberIn: Woyshner, Christine.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed. 2014.
• Language: English
• Series: Leaders in Educational Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Research in social education over the last forty years has broken new ground in such areas as historical understanding, civic education, cultural studies, and curriculum and assessment. This collection is comprised of reflections on the professional trajectories of nineteen leading social studies sc...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Christine Woyshner
• Introduction / Christine Woyshner
• Legacies of the Chat-N-Nibble / Keith C. Barton
• Tex/Mex Border Roots and Beyond / Gloria Contreras
• The Accidental Educationist / Margaret Smith Crocco
• Continuity, Challenge, and Change Over the Course of a Professional Career / Terrie Epstein
• Forty Days and Forty Nights / Ronald W. Evans
• Framing a Scholarly Life / S. G. Grant
• Social Studies and Social Change from the Local to the Global / Carole L. Hahn
• The Power of a Past / Linda S. Levstik
• Crossing Cultures and Global Interconnectedness / Merry M. Merryfield
• Progressing Through Education / Jack L. Nelson
• Building Bridges Between Rice and Potatoes / Valerie Ooka Pang
• Travels with (UN)Conventional Wisdom / Walter Parker
• A Sense of Where You are / E. Wayne Ross
• On Being Critical / Avner Segall
• From Social Reconstruction to Social Education in a Tragic Context / William B. Stanley
• Identifying What Matters / Stephen J. Thornton
• The Poorly Planned Trajectory of a Slow but Impulsive Apprentice / Bruce Vansledright
• The Evolution of a Civic Educator / Elizabeth Yeager Washington
• What Kind of Scholar? / Joel Westheimer.