Full Description
In this collection of 19 articles contributors cover the nature of the relationship between the press and social science, especially in education.
Contents
Part I. Getting to Know You.
Chapter 1. Beauty or Beast? Margaret Smith Crocco.
Chapter 2. Spreading the News about Social Studies; Gene Maeroff.
Chapter 3. The Information Media: Social Studies' Main Competitor; Carlos Cortes.
Part II. Historical Perspectives.
Chapter 4. A Fickle Lover: Experiences with the Media in Historical Context; Ronald Evans.
Chapter 5. Headlines and Furrowed Brows: NCSS Engagement with Social Studies Critics and the Press; Tedd Levy.
Chapter 6. Dispatches from the Front Line of the Culture Wars; Linda Symcox.
Chapter 7. The Illusion of Knowledge: Editorial Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of History; Richard J. Paxton.
Part III. Lessons from the Field.
Chapter 8. The Press and Global Education; Merry Merryfield.
Chapter 9. Riding the Tiger: The Press, Myra, and Me; David Sadker.
Chapter 10. Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop; Mark Sass.
Chapter 11. What Counts as a (News/His)Story? Whose (News/His)Story? Catherine Cornbleth.
Chapter 12. When Your Lesson Plan Ends Up on the Front Page; James McGrath Morris.
Part IV. Teaching about/with the Media.
Chapter 13. Give Us 8 Seconds and We'll Give You...the Business; Doug Selwyn.
Chapter 14. Children's Exposure to Trauma and Violence in the Media: Evolving Literacy Skills to Counter Hype and Foster Hope; Michael and Ilene Berson.
Chapter 15. Reading the News and Reading the World in High School Social Studies Classrooms; Alan J. Singer and Michael Pezone.
Part V. New Media and Citizenship Education.
Chapter 16. Democratic Education and Self-Publishing on the Web; Howard Budin.
Chapter 17. Blogs in the Machine; Judith Cramer.
Part VI. Improving the Relationship.
Chapter 18. Practicing What We Preach; Richard Theisen.
Chapter 19. Covering the Conflict and Missing the Point; Richard Lee Colvin.
Chapter 20. Down from the Tower and into the Fray: Adventures in Writing for the Popular Press; E. Wayne Ross.
