Title: Contemporary Issues for Social Studies Teaching
Country: Armenia
Authors: Serob Khacatryan et al.
CategoryStandards Documents and Curricular Frameworks
Date of Publication: 2007
Keywords: assessment in civics, citizenship education, cooperative learning, effective teaching and learning, issue-based learning, participants teaching social studies programs, teaching values
Resource Language(s): Armenian
Pages: 406
Level of Education: High School
Publisher: Tigran Mets, 2 Arshakunyats Str., Yerevan 0010, Armenia
Access: Can be downloaded at the International Research and Exchanges Board website.  Lusabats Publishing can be contacted at 46 Pushkin Str., Yerevan, Armenia.  Phone: (374-10) 539647
Abstract: Contemporary Issues for Social Studies Teaching is a handbook designed for high school social studies teachers. This handbook presents a contemporary understanding of social studies and civics and the best practices of contemporary approaches designed by civic educators. Among some of the approaches discussed in the book are inquiry, standards-based education, multiliteracy, values education, critical thinking, and cooperative learning. The authors present social studies as both an integrated discipline and a field of learning. In both cases, the content's structure incorporates the three compulsory components of knowledge, skills, and moral values.