The project published here addresses a concern for cultivating historical mindedness and active citizenship in teacher education. This is not precedent-setting work in its own, as social studies education was rooted from its inception in the engagement of learners in the world as it is right now. Tomorrow is today, as Harold Rugg, an early social studies educator, said. As a means of teaching about—and preparing future educators to teach—historical thinking, my colleague Alan Sears and I configured our social studies methods courses that we teach entirely upon the foundation of learning experiences drawn from research in educational history. From hypothesis, to data collection, to peer review, and to publication, ED 4621, ED 4623 and ED 4620 (the elementary and secondary streams of Social Studies) students, engage as scholarly community in a study of the world around them.
——— Read Full Text Below ———