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  • Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century

    Methods and Materials for Teaching in Middle and Secondary Schools

    by Jack Zevin ...
    Now in its 5th edition, this popular text offers practical, interesting, exciting ways to teach social studies and a multitude of instructional and professional resources for teachers. Theory, curriculum, methods, and assessment are woven into a comprehensive model for setting objectives; planning lessons, units, and courses; choosing classroom strategies; and constructing tests for some of the ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Suspicious History

    Questioning the Basis of Historical Evidence

    by Jack Zevin ...
    Suspicious aims at providing teachers and students of history and related social sciences with ideas for critical thinking about past and present applied to documentation, images, and historical writing. Issues of perspective, bias, storytelling, patriotism and heroism, as well as interpretation are distributed among different chapters, along with guidance for making discussion provocative and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Teaching World History as Mystery

    by Jack Zevin, David Gerwin ...
    Offering a philosophy, methodology, and examples for history instruction that are active, imaginative, and provocative, this text presents a fully developed pedagogy based on problem-solving methods that promote reasoning and judgment and restore a sense of imagination and participation to classroom learning. It is designed to draw readers into the detective process that characterizes the work of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Teaching U.S. History as Mystery

    by David Gerwin, Jack Zevin ...
    Presenting U.S. history as contested interpretations of compelling problems, this text offers a clear set of principles and strategies, together with case studies and "Mystery Packets" of documentary materials from key periods in American history, that teachers can use with their students to promote and sustain problem-finding and problem-solving in history and social studies classrooms. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Geography as Inquiry

    Teaching About and Exploring the Earth as Our Home

    by Mark Newman, Jack Zevin ...
    Geography as Inquiry invites teachers and learners to explore geography in exciting ways, across key concepts, connected to history and the social sciences, reestablishing its place in the social studies and history curriculum. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Young Citizens of the World

    Teaching Elementary Social Studies through Civic Engagement

    by Marilynne Boyle-Baise, Jack Zevin ...
    Young Citizens of the World takes a clear stance: Social studies is about citizenship education that is informed, deliberative, and activist—citizenship not only as a noun, something one studies, but as a verb, something one DOES. Its holistic, multicultural approach is based on this clear curricular and pedagogical purpose. Straightforward, engaging, and highly interactive, the book encourages ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Creative Teaching for All

    In the Box, Out of the Box, and Off the Walls

    by Jack Zevin ...
    Read Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards, cores, and state regulations that strangle motivation and destroy experimentation.Reclaim teacher control of curriculum design and instructional ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Teaching on a Tightrope

    The Diverse Roles of a Great Teacher

    by Jack Zevin ...
    Teaching on a Tightrope offers those seeking to play the teacher's role a way of thinking about the major components of teaching. These components or dimensions are described in terms of pairings that interact and overlap with each other, e.g., teaching as art and science, content and process, theory and practice, cognition and emotion. Each pairing is focused on the overall relationship and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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    by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov ...
    The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act-- with new dimensions and perspectivesBased on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart—when cooperation is so clearly in everyone’s interest. With major new contributions from Michael Minkov’s analysis of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind

    by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede ...
    The landmark study of cultural differences across 70 nations, Cultures and Organizations helps readers look at how they think—and how they fail to think—as members of groups. Based on decades of painstaking field research, this new edition features the latest scientific results published in Geert Hofstede’s scholarly work Culture’s Consequences, Second Edition. Original in thought and profoundly ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Real Education

    Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

    by Charles Murray ...
    With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material. Doing our best for every child requires, above all else, that we embrace that simplest of truths. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Schools We Need

    And Why We Don't Have Them

    by E.D. Hirsch Jr. ...
    This paperback edition, with a new introduction, offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy.For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural for them, that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD