Social Studies Matters: Teaching and Learning With Authenticity

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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 todays 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.

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Emily M. Schell, Ed.D., is Executive Director of the California Global Education Project at the University of San Diego, School of Leadership and Education Sciences. In this role, she leads a statewide professional learning network for K-12 educators to foster global competence and interdisciplinary learning. She is passionate about global education that promotes compassionate living, peace-making, social justice, and respect for nature and all living beings.

Dr. Schell is a former elementary and secondary teacher and principal as well as district Social Studies Resource Teacher at San Diego Unified; K-12 History-Social Science Coordinator at San Diego County Office of Education; liaison at National Geographic Education Foundation; and preservice instructor at San Diego State University's School of Teacher Education. She is co-chair to the California Environmental Literacy Initiative, co-leads the California Global Education Network, and works closely with the California Geographic Alliance. She is an author, speaker, and presenter, contributing to professional journals, blogs, curriculum, and conferences. Dr. Schell is a Royal Canadian Geographical Society Fellow, HundrED Ambassador, California Council for the Social Studies awardee, and was recently named one of the Top 100 Visionaries in Education by the Global Forum for Education and Learning. She earned her B.A. and Ed.D. at the University of San Diego and her M.S. in Journalism at Northwestern University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.