Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society

Mark Baildon is Assistant Professor in Humanities and Social Studies Education at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. James S. Damico is Assistant Professor in Literacy, Culture and Language Education at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

• Introduction: Social Studies as New Literacies for Living in a Global Society Part I: Reconceptualizing Social Studies: Frameworks and Tools 1. The Role of Social Studies in "New Times" 2. Teaching and Learning in New Times: Challenges and Possibilities 3. Web-based Technology Tools to Guide Inquiry Part II: Exploring and Examining Challenges and Possibilities: Windows into Classrooms 4. Collaboratively Negotiating the Challenge of Locating Reliable, Readable, and Useful Sources With Rindi Baildon 5. Examining the Claims and Credibility of a Complicated Multimodal Web-based Text 6. The Challenge of Synthesizing Web-based Information in an Inquiry-based Social Studies Classroom 7. Part I: Identifying What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Progressive Knowledge Building in an Inquiry Community With Anne Elsener 8. Part II: Identifying What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Progressive Knowledge Building in an Inquiry Community With Anne Elsener Part III: Synthesis and Implications 9. Social Studies as New Literacies: Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom

"Through useful literacy practices, non-threatening web-based tools, and realistic examples of teachers and students collaboratively engaging with multifaceted problems, the authors provide valuable guidance for understanding social studies in new ways." —Alberta Journal of Educational Research