The Social Sciences and Geographic Education
Author : John M. Ball
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Geography
ISBN :
Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences
Author : Steven J. Steinberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483303462
Book Description
Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place is the first book to take a cutting-edge approach to integrating spatial concepts into the social sciences. In this text, authors Steven J. Steinberg and Sheila L. Steinberg simplify GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for practitioners and students in the social sciences through the use of examples and actual program exercises so that they can become comfortable incorporating this research tool into their repertoire and scope of interest. The authors provide learning objectives for each chapter, chapter summaries, links to relevant Web sites, as well as suggestions for student research projects.
Geography in Relation to the Social Sciences
Author : Isaiah Bowman
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Science
ISBN :
Book Description
Bringing the Social Sciences Alive
Author : Frederick M. Hess
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
Both and invaluable resource and a how-to manual, this book is unlike others on the market. Written with the practicing teacher in mind, the book offers ten tested, varied, and refined simulations that will enliven a classroom in grades 7-12 without sacrificing content. The lessons will help a teacher teach concepts, material and skills more effectively.
Social Science in Context
Author : Rickard Danell
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9187351056
Book Description
One of the very first books to explore the role of the social sciences in historical, sociological, and global perspectives, it does so by analyzing the practical making and discursive aspects of social scientific disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, business and administration studies, social gerontology, gender studies, educational science, geography, and political science. It looks at them not only in their academic setting but also in extra-academic contexts and in a broader global setting. The volume includes 15 chapters written by an international and multidisciplinary group of scholars. The overall aim of the book is to encourage a contextual and reflexive understanding of the complex and dynamic relationship between the social sciences and society of the past and in today's globalized world. It is concerned with the bonds between the social sciences and society at large, including themes such as gender and power, science and politics, academic boundaries and global power relations, and postcolonial perspectives.
Social Studies and Social Sciences
Author : Stanley P. Wronski
Publisher : Washington, DC : National Council for the Social Studies
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780879860523
Book Description
This publication documents the development of the social studies during the past 50 years. This collection of essays updates major trends in history, political science, sociology, economics, psychology, anthropology, and geography. Unlike two earlier collections, this book has an emphasis on the continuing problems, trends, and issues in both the social sciences and social studies and also contains a series of complementing essays describing developments in the teaching of the discipline areas at the elementary and secondary levels. Following an introduction by Donald H. Bragaw, 15 essays by different authors are presented: "Trials of Clio" (David D. Van Tassel); "From Monopoly to Dominance" (Paul Robinson and Joseph M. Kirman); "The Evolving Nature of Geography" (Salvatore J. Natoli); "Teaching and Learning in Geography" (Barbara J. Winston); "Political Science: Promise and Practice" (John G. Gunnell); "Civics and Government in Citizenship Education (James P. Shaver and Richard S. Knight); "In Search of Economic Ideals and Policies" (David D. VanHoose and William E. Becker, Jr.); "Promoting Economic Literacy" (Beverly J. Armento); "Sociology: From Theory to Social Action" (J. Ross Eshleman); "Teaching Sociology in K-12 Classrooms" (Thomas J. Switzer); "Coming of Age in Anthropology" (Roger C. Owen); "Trends in Precollegiate Anthropology" (Thomas L. Dynneson); "Psychology: Social Science, Natural Science, and Profession" (Michael Wertheimer and Others); "Teaching Psychology in High Schools" (John K. Bare); and "Looking Backward: 2035-1985" (Stanley P. Wronski). (KC)
Social Studies in the New Education Policy Era
Author : Paul G. Fitchett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351978578
Book Description
Social Studies in the New Education Policy Era is a series of compelling open-ended education policy dialogues among various social studies scholars and stakeholders. By facilitating conversations about the relationships among policy, practice, and research in social studies education, this collection illuminates various positions—some similar, some divergent—on contested issues in the field, from the effects of standardized curriculum and assessment mandates on K–12 teaching to the appropriate roles of social studies educators as public policy advocates. Chapter authors bring diverse professional experiences to the questions at hand, offering readers multiple perspectives from which to delve into well-informed discussions about social studies education in past, present, and future policy contexts. Collectively, their commentaries aim to inspire, challenge, and ultimately strengthen readers’ beliefs about the place of social studies in present and future education policy environments.
Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom
Author : Todd W. Kenreich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415807026
Book Description
This volume posits geography as a bridge between the natural and social sciences, demonstrating how issues such as discrimination and poverty can be more deeply understood with a spatial perspective from varying scales: individual, community, region, nation, and world. It explores new developments in geography and their implications for the K-12 social studies curriculum, introducing teachers and teacher educators to new research in the field and providing theoretical and practical examples of geography in the curriculum.
Geographical Education in a Changing World
Author : John Lidstone
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2006-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402048076
Book Description
This book results from the work of the Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union. Part 1 focuses on the distinctive traditions of school geography. Part 2 reviews the state of school geography on a broad continental basis, including national case studies by local experts. The final chapters extrapolate from the present and point to likely future developments in the subject, again with examples drawn from various countries.
GIS and the Social Sciences
Author : Dimitris Ballas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317638824
Book Description
GIS and the Social Sciences offers a uniquely social science approach on the theory and application of GIS with a range of modern examples. It explores how human geography can engage with a variety of important policy issues through linking together GIS and spatial analysis, and demonstrates the importance of applied GIS and spatial analysis for solving real-world problems in both the public and private sector. The book introduces basic theoretical material from a social science perspective and discusses how data are handled in GIS, what the standard commands within GIS packages are, and what they can offer in terms of spatial analysis. It covers the range of applications for which GIS has been primarily used in the social sciences, offering a global perspective of examples at a range of spatial scales. The book explores the use of GIS in crime, health, education, retail location, urban planning, transport, geodemographics, emergency planning and poverty/income inequalities. It is supplemented with practical activities and datasets that are linked to the content of each chapter and provided on an eResource page. The examples are written using ArcMap to show how the user can access data and put the theory in the textbook to applied use using proprietary GIS software. This book serves as a useful guide to a social science approach to GIS techniques and applications. It provides a range of modern applications of GIS with associated practicals to work through, and demonstrates how researcher and policy makers alike can use GIS to plan services more effectively. It will prove to be of great interest to geographers, as well as the broader social sciences, such as sociology, crime science, health, business and marketing.
