ABSTRACT
THE GOALS OF SOCIAL STUDIES What do you need to know about social studies? The answer probably seems to be more than you do know or can learn. It is certainly more than you will be able to get from any textbook. As a teacher, you owe it to the generations of students that you teach to become mindfully, curiously, purposefully alive to them, to their world, to social studies as a thick endless blanket of stories about people and events, and to the values and rules needed for people to live together.
