The teaching of the social studies in American schools changed significantly from 1900 to 1930. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the nature of those changes. A review was made of social studies education journals, publications of the National Education Association and the National Council for the Social Studies, and textbooks on social studies curriculum. The narrative content and pictures of selected elmentary social studies textbooks were analyzed to determine how the portrayal of the sexes, as well as racial and ethnic groups changed over time. / Early in the twentieth century committees of the national Education Association and the American Historical Association set standards which influenced social studies education. Earle Rugg was instrumental in founding the National Council for the Social Studies in 1921. Harold Rugg wrote and published the first elementary social studies textbook series in the 1930s. Rugg's books were innovative in that they described the way people lived and worked in the 1930s. / Citizenship education has been a recurring theme of the social studies, especially during and after wars in which the United States was involved. The civil rights and women's movements in the 1960s and 1970s produced social changes which were reflected in textbooks as more attention was given to minorities and women. In the 1960s and 1970s, social studies leaders began to urge the field to develop higher thinking processes in students because of the knowledge explosion. / The author concluded that the elementary social studies textbooks were not trend setters, but rather their content was the result of changes in society. She judged that elementary social studies textbooks reflect changes in society rather than bring them about. Events in society led to social change. Following social change, publishers became aware of marketable themes which were incorporated into textbook content. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, Section: A, page: 1033. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75298 |
| Contributors | LEDER, SANDRA JUANITA., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 237 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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