Educational Theory and Practice I: Social Studies

This course is designed to provide MAT students with an opportunity to wrestle with the tensions and possibilities embedded in the struggle to bridge educational theory with practice in secondary social studies classrooms. The summer course is an intensive theory- and practice-based experience that is intimately linked with a Brown Summer High School teaching practicum. The practicum, in combination with daily methods classes, will begin the process of developing culturally responsive lessons that integrate the multiple dimensions of social studies: Civics & Government, Historical Perspectives, Geography, and Economics.