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Defining Features

• Balances diversity and uniformity: Offers an array of perspectives and a great breadth of expertise through multiple contributors; presents varied but complementary ideas using consistent terminology and common structures.
• Balances the theoretical and the practical: Illustrates the applications and implications of broad principles in specific classroom contexts by situating teaching practices and strategies within their scholarly traditions and orientations, and by using theoretical considerations to problematize everyday experiences that teachers are likely to face.
• Balances the innovative and the foundational: Adds new topics without supplanting foundational principles and areas of practice that must remain at the core of teacher preparation; augments the treatment of core ideas with the best of recent thinking and developments.

Key Revisions

• Added previews and overarching inquiry questions to guide reading of each chapter
• Infused six themes more extensively throughout the collection
  ○ critical inquiry
  ○ competencies
  ○ inclusion
  ○ digital technologies
  ○ Indigenous issues
  ○ discipline-specific discussions in history and geography
  
• Added five new chapters (including an “issues” chapter written by eight educators)
• Replaced three chapters
• Substantially revised four chapters
• Updated most chapters to reflect curriculum revisions, recent scholarly work, and emerging educational and social developments
• Supplemented the print resource with more than 70 online resources including lesson plans, student activity sheets, assessment materials, and bibliographies

Editors

Roland Case is the co-founder, former executive director, and senior editor of The Critical Thinking Consortium (TC²). He was a professor of social studies education at Simon Fraser University and prior to that an elementary school teacher. He has edited or authored over 60 published books and teaching resources.

Penney Clark is a professor of social studies education at the University of British Columbia and former director of The History Education Network. She has taught elementary and secondary social studies curriculum and pedagogy courses at three universities. She has published widely in the areas of the history of social studies and history education and the history of educational publishing in Canada.

Authors

Wayne Andrew, teacher and teacher-librarian, Ontario
Philip Balcaen, associate professor emeritus, University of British Columbia-Okanagan
Wanda Cassidy, professor (retired), Simon Fraser University
Lindsay Gibson, assistant professor, University of British Columbia
Garfield Gini-Newman, associate professor, teaching stream, OISE/University of Toronto
Laura Gini-Newman, facilitator and consultant, The Critical Thinking Consortium
Andrew Griffin, teacher, Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School, Ontario
Duane Jackson, Indigenous cultural consultant
Usha James, executive director, The Critical Thinking Consortium
Alicia Lapointe, research scientist, Western University
Michael Marker, formerly associate professor, University of British Columbia
James Miles, visiting assistant professor, Columbia University
Kamilla Milligan, diversity and equity trainer, University of Victoria
Tom Morton, social studies teacher (retired), Vancouver School Board
John Myers, instructor (retired), OISE/University of Toronto
Paul Neufeld, associate professor, Simon Fraser University
Ken Osborne, professor emeritus, University of Manitoba
Carla Peck, professor, University of Alberta
E. Wayne Ross, professor, University of British Columbia
Ruth W. Sandwell, professor, OISE/University of Toronto
Alan Sears, professor emeritus, University of New Brunswick
Avner Segall, professor, Michigan State University
Stefan Stipp, vice-principal, Surrey School District
Kendall Taylor, teacher (retired), Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School, Ontario
Maria Vamvalis, doctoral candidate, OISE/University of Toronto
Andrea Webb, associate professor of teaching, University of British Columbia
Walt Werner, associate professor emeritus, University of British Columbia

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