Social Education in the Twentieth Century

The Editors: Christine Woyshner received her Ed.D. in Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning Environments from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1999 and researches the history of women in education. Joseph Watras is Professor of Historical and Social Foundations of Education at the University of Dayton in Ohio.Margaret Smith Crocco is Associate Professor of Social Studies and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

• Contents: Chara Haeussler Bohan: Early Vanguards of Progressive Education: The Committee of Ten, The Committee of Seven, and Social Education – Andra Makler: «Problems of Democracy» and the Social Studies Curriculum during the Long Armistice – Steven Jay Gross: Civic Hands Upon the Land: Diverse Patterns of Social Education in the Civilian Conservation Corps and its Analogues 1933-1942 – Yoon K. Pak: Teaching for Intercultural Understanding in the Social Studies: A Teacher’s Perspective in the 1940s – Benjamin M. Jacobs: Jewish Education for Intelligent Citizenship in the American Jewish Community, 1910-1940 – Christine Woyshner: From Assimilation to Cultural Pluralism: The PTA and Civic Education, 1900-1950 – Andrew Mullen: «Some Sort of Revolution»: Reforming the Social Studies Curriculum, 1957-1972 – Tyrone C. Howard: Social Studies during the Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1975 – Margaret Smith Crocco: Women and the Social Studies: The Long Rise and Rapid Fall of Feminist Activity in the National Council for the Social Studies – Avner Segall: Social Studies and the Discourses of Postmodernity – Jackie M. Blount: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and Social Education in the Twentieth Century – Joseph Watras: Historians and Social Studies Educators, 1893-1998 – Stephen J. Thornton: Citizenship Education and Social Studies Curriculum Change after 9/11.

«This is an outstanding, wide-ranging collection that addresses virtually every significant issue within the social education field. It makes two particularly unique contributions: it approaches social education from a decidedly (and necessarily) broadened perspective, detailing the complexity of a ‘range of activities, agents, and issues’, both inside and outside the public school classroom; and, with a scope that begins in 1893 and ends in the early twenty-first century, it does so by situating each topic within the evolving historical and social contexts that shaped it. Enjoyable and provocative to read, this comprehensive volume has the potential to significantly revitalize scholarship in the social education field.» (Kenneth Teitelbaum, Professor and Chair of Education, Kent State University, Ohio)«This enlightening and useful collection of essays provides an historical panorama of the key developments shaping social studies education in the twentieth century.» (Kathleen Weiler, Professor of Education, Tufts University)«This new book is a much-needed addition to the history of the social studies in American schools. This book offers practitioners and scholars impressively researched and deftly written accounts and interpretations that extend understanding of some important elements of rhetoric and of a few practices of the field mainly during the twentieth century. These explorations, furthermore, display the high quality of scholarship that the field must continue to expect.» (O. L. Davis, Catherine Mae Parker Centennial Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas, Austin)