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ED420549 SO028183
Title: Children's Social Consciousness and the Development of Social Responsibility.
Author(s): Berman, Sheldon
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0-7914-3198-3
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246; phone: 800-688-2877.
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Information Analysis (070)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIENOV1998
This book
synthesizes the research in diverse fields of the social studies
relating to the development of children's awareness of and responsibility
for social inequity and social action. The book addresses the issues
concerning: the processes by which young people develop a sense
of social responsibility; and classroom and school practices that
effectively support this development. The book is divided into seven
chapters including: (1) "I Care About the World. But I Don't
Think It Concerns Me, Even Though It Does.'"; (2) "The
Development of Social Responsibility"; (3) "From Consciousness
to Activism"; (4) "Processes that Promote Development";
(5) "Educational Interventions and Social Responsibility";
(6) "The Current State of Educating for Social Responsibility";
and (7) "The Courage To Teach Social Responsibility."
(EH)
Descriptors: *Children; *Citizenship Education; Citizenship Responsibility;
Elementary Education; Ideology; *Social Cognition; *Social Responsibility;
*Social Studies; *Social Values; Socialization
