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Global Inquiry and Content Teaching Through the “Stories of a Discipline”: Social Studies

by Melanie Landon-Hays, Tracy Smiles and Kenneth Carano

SoldierFor our final blog post, we reflect on the discipline that is perhaps most naturally suited to a study of global perspectives built on the stories of a discipline. Social Studies is a content area built on global stories of people, places, and events—their connections and their impacts both across time and space—that serve as a foundation for understanding one’s own place in the world in relation to the perspectives studied. Continue reading