Social Education March/April 2013
Social Education March/April 2013
Volume:77
Num:2
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Editor's Notebook
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Searching for the Seventies: Photographs from the Environmental Protection Agency's DOCUMERICA Project
Examining key photos from a 1970s federal project can serve as a point of departure for an exploration of the national issues and environmental crises of that decade.
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Understanding World Economic History
Students will gain a better understanding of the pre-modern world when they consider the role that new technologies and institutions played in the advances of modern societies.
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The Economics of Government and the Fall of Rome
Studying the economic choices of the Roman Empire prior to its collapse can highlight for students the relationship between government failure and economic failure.
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Business in the Middle Ages: What Was the Role of Guilds?
The study of medieval guilds and their role in regulating trade provides opportunities for teaching key economic concepts in a historical context.
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Why Didn't China Discover the New World?
A historic look at China and its early technological advances offers an excellent opportunity to incorporate economic lessons into the study of world history.
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Tokugawa Japan and Industrial Revolution Britain: Two Misunderstood Societies
A close study of Tokugawa Japan and Industrial Revolution Britain will correct textbook depictions and reveal societies that had pro-growth government policies and significant economic freedom.
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The East India Company: Agent of Empire in the Early Modern Capitalist Era
The English East India Company provides an excellent case study for a lesson on the complex dynamics and consequences of intertwined business-government relations.
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Slavery and Free Markets: Relationships between Economic Institutions
This look at the contradictions between economic freedom and slavery provides a comprehensive view of the institution of slavery in world and American history.
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Visions of Inflation in World History: Ghost Story III
In this sequel to ghost stories in previous issues of Social Education, Ben Bernanke has a dream that explores historic cases of hyperinflation as well as current inflation fears with two of the best-known economists in history.
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Who Was Thaddeus Lee? Using the 1940 Digitized Census for Personalized Historical Inquiry
The release of the 1940 census can be used as a jumping off point into the study of personal, community, or state history in the post-Depression period.
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Grand Challenges: Nanotechnology and the Social Studies
The featured lesson on nanotechnology encourages students to explore the role that science and technology play in our lives and to consider relevant social and ethical issues.
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Taking It to the Street: Using QR Codes to Tell Student-Created (Hi)stories on Location
Students become actively engaged in inquiry when they use digital tools to research local history and create stories accessible to the community through QR codes.
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Getting to the Core: Using Digital Resources to Enhance Content-Based Literacy in the Social Studies
The digital resources selected here for using literature to teach social studies will help engage learners and enliven the discipline.
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The Globalization of Economics and How It's Changing Domestic Politics, International Relations, and Our Lives
These highlighted websites will help classroom teachers and curriculum supervisors incorporate economic globalization into their curriculum and teaching.
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Gideon v. Wainwright at Fifty: Lessons for Democracy and Civics
The case of Gideon v. Wainwright can serve as a point of entry into a classroom discussion of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.