.... For this reason, it is a useful concept to teach students. By participating in a simulated competitive labor market as employers and potential employees, students learn about the links between education, productivity, income, and employment. As potential employees in this exercise have varying levels of education...

... Liberty Civics Education History Social Studies Research and Practice www.socstrp.org Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? Lois M. Christensen Melissa G. Whetstone University of Alabama at Birmingham Although the civil rights movement in the United States occurred more than 50 years ago, voter...

... s seminal text. Keywords: pedagogy, oppressed, Paulo Freire, education, literacy, Brazil, Chile, writing Introduction While it has been more than 40 years since the publication of Paulo Freire s classic work Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire, 1990a), the text remains popular and is recommended...

... technologies. Key words: social studies; technology; Web 2.0; technology integration; education; curriculum integration. Introduction We are living in a world that is smaller, more connected, and better informed than ever before, yet, in some instances, social studies instruction looks and feels like it did 50...