Psychology and Social Studies

Notes

• Barbara Z. Presseisen and Joseph J. D'Amico , “A Functional Social Studies Curriculum Emphasizing Piagetian Operations.” The Educational Forum 39 ( January 1975 ): 163 – 75
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• C. Wright Mills , The Sociological Imagination ( New York : Grove Press, Inc. , 1961 ). p. 3 .
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• This relates to the nature of scientific inquiry and the tendency in social studies education to reduce disciplined inquiry to a series of predefined, foolproof steps.
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• H. Millard Clements , William Fiedler and B. Robert Tabachnick , Social Study: Inquiry in Elementary Classrooms ( Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill , 1966 ), p. 13 .
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• Presseisen and D'Amico , “ Social Studies Curriculum ,” p. 171 .
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• Ibid. , p. 168 .
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• Ibid.
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• An interesting limitation considering research which suggests that children can deal with topics not immediately present. For example, see Ronald O. Smith , “Challenging the Expanding Environments Theory,” in Research in Elementary Social Studies , ed. Wayne L. Herman , Jr. ( Toronto : Collier-McMillan , 1969 ), pp. 9 – 14
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• Presseisen and D'Amico , “ Social Studies Curriculum ,” p. 171 .
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• See Miriam E. Mason , Home Is Fun ( Chicago : Beckley-Cardy Company , 1939 ).
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• Presseisen and D'Amico , “ Social Studies Curriculum ,” p. 170 . Although not a direct concern of this critique, it would be interesting to explore the inherent political conservatism in such topics, particularly those relative to customs and laws. See Michael W. Apple, “The Hidden Curriculum and the Nature of Conflict,” Interchange 2 (1971): 27–40.
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• Other topics at the kindergarten level deal with study of data beyond the immediate interaction with family and friends.
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• Marlowe Berg , “ An Evaluation of Selected Aspects of the Project Social Studies Curriculum ,” University of Minnesota, Master's Paper, 1967 .
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• This is not to say that the Minnesota materials are without fault. They might be critiqued on a variety of issues not germane to the discussion at hand.
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• Debra L. Hill , “Coke: Kindergarten Unit,” unpublished paper, Tennessee Technological University, 1974 .
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