The specific purpose of this study is to endeavor to find a method of teaching social studies in order for it to contribute to intelligent problem solving in democratic living. To meet this challenge, the method must be democratically, psychologically, and sociologically sound. The purpose is to select and test some type of courses of study most commonly used or suggested by the helpful educators in the social studies field.

The purpose of this study is to examine literature and thought in the field of elementary social studies curriculum, to establish criteria for determining the adequacy of a fourth-grade social studies program and to examine, analyze and evaluate the fourth-grade social studies programs of ten Texas public school systems in order to determine how effectively they meet these criteria.

The purpose of this study is: (1) to determine a criteria for evaluating proposed social studies programs; (2) to review fifth grade bulletins in social studies from five widely separated school systems in the United States, to make an analysis of their aims, methods, and materials, and to determine whether they meet accepted professional standards; (3) to make suggestions for improving the fifth grade social studies as a result of this analysis.

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The problem of this study is to establish criteria of psychological factors that should be included in a social studies educational program of the elementary grades to measure the program planned for the social studies of the elementary grades of the Houston, El Paso, Fort Worth, and Amarillo, Texas, public schools.

"This study was undertaken to gain a comprehensive knowledge of matters affecting the personnel teaching the social studies in the secondary schools for white children in the State of Florida. It attempted to ascertain the number of teachers being utilized for the teaching of the social studies and amount of teachers accredited in other disciplines who were conducting social studies classes"--Introduction. / "May 19, 1953." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Richard E. Gross, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-49).

黃顯華. / 據手稿本影印. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院敎育學部. / Ju shou gao ben ying yin. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-137). / Huang Xianhua. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan jiao yu xue bu. / 致謝 / 論文提要 / 附表 / Chapter 第一章 --- 導論 --- p.1 / Chapter I --- 社會教育科的內容、目的、及其在香港的發展 --- p.1 / Chapter II --- 問題說明 --- p.14 / Chapter III --- 研究動機與目的 --- p.28 / Chapter IV --- 有關文獻之引述 --- p.34 / Chapter A --- “公民意´識ح的意義 --- p.35 / Chapter B --- 香港社會科公民意識教育的發展 --- p.39 / Chapter C --- 美國社會科公民意識教育的發展 --- p.45 / Chapter D --- 美國社會教育科的歷史 --- p.51 / Chapter E --- 對公民教育的質疑 --- p.54 / Chapter F --- 制定“公民教育目標量度工´具ح的取向 --- p.55 / Chapter G --- 有關公民教育目標的分析及其研究工具 --- p.57 / Chapter 第二章 --- 研究設計 --- p.73 / Chapter I --- 假設 --- p.73 / Chapter II --- 重要名詞闡釋 --- p.79 / Chapter III --- 研究對像與取樣 --- p.82 / Chapter IV --- 研究工具 --- p.86 / Chapter V --- 資料搜集 --- p.87 / Chapter V I --- 資料分析 --- p.89 / Chapter 第三章 --- 總結 --- p.94 / Chapter I --- 結果分析 --- p.94 / Chapter II --- 結論 --- p.115 / Chapter IV --- 建議 --- p.128 / 參考文獻 --- p.133 / 附錄 --- p.138

Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong. / Bibliography: leaves 70-73.

A teacher resource packet was created that teachers can use at the third through sixth grade levels to effectively implement the use of primary sources into their existing curriculum to promote greater historical understanding, imagination, emapthy and critical thinking. This project is intended to change teacher behaviors of teaching using an archival view of history to one that applies critical thinking and promotes in-depth student understanding of historical events.

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