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Introduces a project to engage preservice teachers in a service learning activity. Provides background on service learning and how to incorporate it into the classroom. Suggests that preservice teachers need to experience service learning so that they will be better prepared to implement service learning in their future classrooms. (DSK)

Advocates using children's literature in the social studies curriculum to teach sensitivity to cultural differences and skills to cope with them. Offers a basic strategy for teaching ethnic sensitivity and discusses activities for three novels. (SR)

Describes a teaching model in which the teacher supplements the social studies text with children's literature to make historic events and people more meaningful to students. Suggests that teachers consider students' knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation levels when selecting activities. Includes diagrams illustrating uses for literature in social studies. (DK)

Examines the unpopularity of social studies among students. Suggests that the source of the problem may be found in textbooks. Discusses textbooks written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, a.k.a. "Peter Parley," a nineteenth-century U.S. social studies textbook writer. Underscores his belief in using literature to connect social studies to children's interests. (SG)

Using South Africa as its focus, outlines a middle school lesson plan for teaching geographic themes and location and place. Provides students practice using geographic skills. Includes instruction about major cultural and ethnic groups living in South Africa along with three maps for classroom use. (NL)

In June, 1991, from a video screen in the Galleria Marriot in Houston, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the American who came up with the Japanese theory of management, asked 700 [...]

Argues that American Government courses offer opportunities for teaching geographic knowledge and skills. Shows how government and geography can be integrated. Concludes that geography must be included at every level of the social studies curriculum. (RKM)

Examines a cooperative learning technique called Jigsaw that was used to determine whether college-level students taught by this method scored higher on a posttest than students who were not. Results showed no significant difference between those taught by the Jigsaw technique and those who were not. (GG)

Looks at criticism of the Expanding Environments Model in the elementary school social studies curriculum. Cites recent reports that recommend a history-centered elementary curriculum. States that teaching methods may be the cause of historical, civic, and geographic illiteracy rather than the Expanding Environments Model. (LS)

Discusses the applications of the principles of total quality management (TQM) on education. Features of the TQM management philosophy; Adaptability of the management process of bringing together resources to create products and services in education; Thrusts of TQM as applied in education; Benefits of applying TQM in education.

Offers a lesson which is designed to help twelfth grade American Government students understand the process and dilemmas of congressional reapportionment or redistricting. Includes objectives, teaching procedures and a map of an imaginary state showing districts and their populations. (JDH)