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The Rise and Fall of Civic Education: The Battle for Social Studies in a Shifting Historical Landscape

The Rise and Fall of Civic Education: The Battle for Social Studies in a Shifting Historical Landscape
Author: Michael Learn
Price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 1475858876
ISBN-13: 9781475858877
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Social studies is a field in crisis. The crisis stems from failure to establish the very foundation of social studies&rsquo; purpose in public education: civic education. Social studies advocates have never put forth a coherent method for teaching civic education because policymakers and the public have been unable to agree upon a general definition of civic education. This issue has disrupted the field since the early days. As educators sought to include civic education within public schools as a dedicated field, social studies evolved into a blending of history, social sciences, and civic education. Social studies&rsquo; evolution never resolved the differences between the three, with each discipline striving to control the narrative. Instead of creating a unified field, the disciplines devalued social studies and thus any discipline associated with it. <i>The Rise and Fall of Civic Education: The Battle for Social Studies in a Shifting Historical Landscape </i>investigates the changing definitions and purposes ascribed to social studies in the United States through time. This result is viewed through the rising tensions from culture wars as America&rsquo;s divisive politics fight to control the narrative of the disciplines within social studies.