Social Studies, Democracy, and Diversity: Inclusive and Culturally Sustaining Early Childhood…

Catalog description

This course critically examines the content and methods of teaching social studies and democracy to young children from diverse family, linguistic, cultural, and economic backgrounds. The course explores the relationship of knowledge within the disciplines to other content areas and to life applications, big ideas, and the process of inquiry in each domain, processes by which children learn, and methods for guiding children in conceptualizing the social world they inhabit.