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Making Sense of Social Studiesreviewed by Stephen J. Thornton - 1992 Title: Making Sense of Social Studies Author(s): David Jenness Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: 0029211557, Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com In Making Sense of Social Studies, David Jenness takes on a daunting task. The social studies field has long been the arena for frequently shrill curriculum debates. Jennesss primary focus is the history of the often troubled relationships between social studies in the schools and the social subjects in the universities. It is a timely focus given current curriculum battlesparticularly attempts to substitute a subject-based core, with history and geography as the mainstays, for the coalition of subject-based courses and more issues oriented, multidisciplinary courses that has been the curricular norm for several generations.1
Jenness notes that to some of those professionally involved with higher scholarship and research, the very name social studies evidently indicates a suspect, perhaps a hypothetical entitywhich some other name would make more real (p. xvii). He finds this puzzling" because both his generation and their offspring took social studies courses in the schools: Why does the... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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