AbstractsSocial Sciences

To Develop a Sound Social Studies Program for the Small High School

by Mary Knox Rudd




Institution: North Texas State Teachers College
Department:
Year: 1948
Keywords: social studies; high school; curriculum; Social sciences  – Study and teaching (Secondary)
Record ID: 1498921
Full text PDF: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83434/


Abstract

The specific purpose of this study is to endeavor to find a method of teaching social studies in order for it to contribute to intelligent problem solving in democratic living. To meet this challenge, the method must be democratically, psychologically, and sociologically sound. The purpose is to select and test some type of courses of study most commonly used or suggested by the helpful educators in the social studies field.