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DOCUMENTRESUME ED 374 072 SO 024 557 AUTHOR Nelson, Murry R., Ed. TITLE The Social Studies in Secondary Education: A Reprint of the Seminal 1916 Report with Annotations and Commentaries. INSTITUTION ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, Bloomington, IN. National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, . SPONS AGENCY D.C.; Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.; Social Studies Development Center, Bloomington, Ind. REPORT NO ISBN-0-941339-20-3 PUB DATE 94 CONTRACT RR93002014 NOTE 164p. AVAILABLE FROMERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, 2805 East Tenth Street, Suite 120, Bloomington, IN 47408-2698. PUB TYPE Historical Materials (060) Information Analyses ERIC Clearinghouse Products (071) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Academic Standards; *Citizenship Education; *Curriculum Development; Curriculum Guides; Educational Change; *Educational History; Geography Instruction; History Instruction; Secondary Education; *Secondary School Curriculum; *Social Studies ABSTRACT This document contains a reprint of the 1916 "The Social Studies in Secondary Education: A Six-Year Program Adapted 'Both to the 6-3-3 and the 8-4 Plans of Organization and Report of the Committee on Social Studies of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education of the National Education Association" widely believed to be the most important document in the history of citizenship education in the United States. It legitimated the term "social studies" to designate formal citizenship education and placed squarely in the field all of those subjects that were believed to contribute to that end. While recognizing the importance of history and the social sciences as contributing to citizenship education, the Committee's report recognized that citizenship education is something more than mastery of separate disciplines.
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