Teaching Social Studies in Grades 4-8

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This course examines the theories, practices, content, and resources for the teaching and learning of social studies in grades 4 through 8. It encourages students to articulate and enact a set of ideas and practices for helping young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. This is accomplished via curricular and pedagogical decision-making exercises addressing various geographical, social, political, and economic dimensions of global citizenship, with emphasis placed on how these dimensions can be framed and understood within the Spiritan Tradition of Caring.