AbstractsSocial Sciences

An Evaluation of the Approaches to the Social Studies

by L. R. Golson




Institution: North Texas State Teachers College
Department:
Year: 1941
Keywords: social studies; democracy; teaching; Social sciences  – Study and teaching  – United States.
Record ID: 1492045
Full text PDF: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc70308/


Abstract

This study involves the examination of the major approaches to the social sciences in order to discover whether they are so arranged as to insure democratic practices that are implied or expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the preamble to the Constitution, and the Constitution. It involves the study of the philosophy underlying American democracy of "the yesterdays" and today. A further exploration is made to determine whether the various approaches are based on what psychology has discovered as to the way in which effective learning takes place.