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This far-sighted volume describes emerging trends and challenges in university-level social sciences education in an era marked by globalization, austerity, and inequity. It spotlights solution-focused and interdisciplinary methods of teaching, developed to match influential academic ideas, such as self-directed learning and learning in communities, as students seek to engage with and improve conditions in their immediate environments. Chapters offer real-world applications of foundational concepts in the modern practice of teaching, learning, and curriculum development. Accordingly, the editors emphasize the relationship between pedagogy and curriculum, as both are critical in encouraging student autonomy and promoting optimum academic and societal outcomes. Included in the coverage: · Towards a concept of solution-focused teaching: learning in communities. · Heutagogy and the emerging curriculum. · Collaborative working in the statutory and voluntary sectors. · Delivering a community development curriculum to students with multiple identities. · Photography and teaching in community development. · A model for change: sharing ideas and strategies. The Pedagogy of the Social Sciences Curriculum will inspire sociologists, social workers, and health and sociology educators to take a deeper role in community well-being as students, faculty, and communities collaborate to make lasting contributions to society

Given the nature of the issues and the role played by knowledge, ancient tribal chiefs could no longer make decisions alone, so they surrounded themselves with advisers. The group decisions they took presaged the methods of modern government. Examines these collective decision making processes based on knowledge, from their earliest usage to the present day. (RSM)

Historians & social scientists too often accept each other's ideas as proven data; this tendency negatively affects research in both areas. Views of the proper relationship between history & the social sciences advanced by spokesmen of both sides, eg, R. Dahrendorf, H. S. Hughes, J. Barzun, S. M. Lipset, & R. Hofstadter, are discussed, & shown to be responsible for many internecine conflicts. Finally, three social science perspectives are shown to have been profoundly influential in historical argument: (1) German historical scholarship, (2) Soviet Marxism-Leninism, & (3) the branch of French historiography known (after its major journal) as the Annales school. Modified HA.

"Book department": p. 179-220. ; An interpretation of China / L.Y. Ho -- The Chinese revolution / Tai-Chi Quo -- Certain aspects of Chinese reconstruction / A.H. Smith -- Republican government in China / C.L. Jones -- The one solution of the Manchurian problem / P. Weale -- The open door / F. McCormick -- The life of a girl in china / Miss Li Yi Yieni Tsao -- A wedding in south China / Miss Ying-Mei Chan -- Causes of Chinese emigration / Pyau Ling -- China's method of revising her educational system / F.L.H. Pott -- Extraterritoriality in China / F.E. Hinckley -- The Chinese Young men's Christian association / D.W. Edwards -- Medicine as practiced by the Chinese / W.W. Cadbury -- China : Geography and resources / G.B. Roorbach -- American commercial interests in Manchuria / D.G. Munro -- Notes on the mammals of economic value in China / M.P. Anderson. ; Mode of access: Internet.