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This updated resource provides educators with the tools to implement standards-based social studies curriculum that will help raise the level of social studies education at each specific grade level, and incorporate all dimensions of the C3 framework.

unit 1. Nature and the self -- unit 2. Language, media, and worldviews -- unit 3. Place -- unit 4. Food -- unit 5. Stuff : production, consumption, and waste -- unit 6. Environmental attitudes and behaviors in U.S.-American history -- unit 7. Ethics and environmental justice -- unit 8. Imagining possible futures.

"Abundant with practical advice and ready-to-use teaching examples, this dynamic guide will help both new and experienced instructors of Principles of Microeconomics to reconsider and refine their courses. Mark Maier and Phil Ruder assemble the wisdom of 25 eminent scholars of economic education on how best to introduce students to the discipline and inspire a long-lasting passion for microeconomics. Beyond offering guidance to educators on how to improve students' learning experience, the book proposes measures for addressing many of the vexing challenges that face the economics discipline today. Chapters provide suggestions on how to capture students' attention and ensure their continued engagement, including selecting course content that focuses on important public policy topics and pressing issues within modern society, adopting evidence-based pedagogical strategies in the classroom and online, and tackling issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion within the discipline. The ideas advanced in this illuminating guide highlight the possibility of continued improvement throughout one's teaching career. The jargon-free advice in this insightful teaching guide will also be of interest to deans, teaching and learning center directors, and other administrators of undergraduate institutions"--

Masculinities in text and teaching / Ben Knights -- Training to be an English teacher : negotiating gendered subjectivities and the gendered curriculum as inter-linked cultural processes / Wayne Martino -- Queer teaching/teaching queer : Renaissance masculinities and the seminar / Mark Dooley -- Charlotte Dacre's nymphomaniacs and demon-lovers : teaching female masculinities / Ranita Chatterjee -- Masculinity and modernism : teaching D.H. Lawrence / Robert Burden -- Gender and narrative form / Ruth Page -- Bois will be bois : masculinity and pedagogy in the gay and lesbian studies classroom / Dennis Allen -- Curricula constructions of race and gender : reading African American masculinity / Rachel Carroll -- Lifelong learning in the lifelong poem / Chris Thurgar-Dawson -- Autobiographical narratives in the teaching of masculinities / John Beynon -- Atrocity and transitivity / Cris Yelland -- Taking possession of knowledge : the masculine academic in Don DeLillo's White noise / Ruth Helyer -- High visibility : teaching ladlit / Alice Ferrebe

By taking students out of their comfort zone, field-based courses--which are increasingly popular in secondary and postsecondary education--have the potential to be deep, transformative learning experiences. But what happens when the field in question is a site of active or recent conflict?

United States; 14 articles. Topics include administrative theory, research methods, computers, ethics, policy evaluation, information management, international administration, experiential education, and communication skills.

Examining ways that science and mathematics are experienced in everyday and out-of-school-time (OST) settings, this book contributes to the learning sciences and helps to shows how OST programs can support educational equity. Includes examples and analysis