What drives this cycle of lackluster content and unenthusiastic teaching?
There are students in our schools who are intelligent but limited in their ability to write and take tests.
We realize that the certification process is sometimes confusing.
As the study of humankind, social studies should be a vehicle for teaching students to apply reasoning and logic to the decision-making process.
This issue of "CSE" focuses on the social studies, a discipline that provides great opportunities to develop a biblically integrative worldview in our students.
While e-learning clearly has many implications for higher education, what does it mean for elementary and secondary education?
In training future Christian teachers and working with current ones, we sometimes find an uneasiness about the best practices for social studies instruction.
Equipping Heroes of Faith to Revolutionize Their Nation
A worldview strips away all details and events, and operates as a framework of beliefs.
It is a daunting task in the opening decade of the new century to construct a God-centered social studies curriculum.
Fully a third of the book is devoted to management skills and tools that can be acquired.
To claim that we have learned a lesson implies that our attitude and behaviour have changed.
A major premise of mine is that no single text can do justice to its subject matter.
As I finished up my first year as a high school principal, I was asked to reflect on how 27 years of active duty as a naval officer helped prepare me for the position.
This broad discipline seems to cover almost everything that God is about.
The African American Experience in American Education
Christian educators must latch onto their students’ current fascination with philosophy, and must translate it into an understanding that will help to spread the eternal truths of the Christian faith.
The Bible, Christian Theism and the Integration of Social Studies: Confessions of a Christian Educator
Proper record keeping is the law
For whatever reasons, change has not come easily to the social studies. Today, the typical social studies curriculum and teaching practices look and feel much the same as they did in the early 1900s.
According to a recent survey, the leading metaphor for the Internet, in the public’s mind, is not a “shopping mall” but a “library.”
Accrediting associations are in an excellent position to assist a Christian school in addressing important questions such as, What is the role of athletics in the school?