Social Studies Matters: Teaching and Learning With Authenticity

Social Studies Matters: Teaching and Learning with Authenticity inspires readers to move beyond worksheets, lectures, notes, reports, and tests in culturally relevant, applicable, and highly engaging instruction.

There is a better way to teach history, and a higher calling we must realise. This book encourages the reader to move past old fashioned worksheets, bubble sheet tests, lectures, and reports that recite facts. We must carefully teach and allow students to authentically engage with the past. This means that we must provide practice in synthesis, analysis, evaluation, and communication so the stories and lessons of the past become applicable and meaningful to today’s problems. When we allow that type of engagement with accurate and complete historical sources, we teach in a culturally relevant and authentic way. This title is applicable to K-12 schools.