"Constructivist View" by Harry Shields- Used with Permission

EDEL 335

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The Alberta Program of Studies (2005) states that “Social Studies provides opportunities for students to develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge that will enable them to become engaged, active, informed and responsible citizens.” Teaching students to be critically minded will require a new brand of teacher, an educator adept at establishing a learning environment that honors diversity, global and local citizenship and promotes critical thinking. Those who teach social studies must understand the importance of crafting a program “based on the belief that democracy necessitates a citizenry capable of identifying problems, collecting, evaluating and analyzing information and making reasoned, defensible and intellectually well-grounded decisions, and a social action model that requires the involvement of students in meaningful, active participation on a local, provincial, national and international scale in order to hone the skills and attitudes essential to participatory democracy” (Susan Gibson and Roberta McKay for Alberta Education, 2004). Intertwined within EDEL 335 will be an exposure to practices that will assist teachers in leading their students developing an “understanding of who they are, what they want to become, and the society in which they want to live” (Alberta Learning, 2003, p.1).   

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Problem Two

How should you select and organize the content for teaching social studies?