Social Education
February 1997
Volume 61 No. 2

"How Can I Study?"
United Nations Children's Fund
A New UNICEF report on child labor worldwide links both causes and cures to the state of education in developing nations.

Traditional Rule-Making and the Subversion of Citizenship Education
David Schimmel
School rules should be treated as part of the civic education of students and developed collaboratively.

Empowering Immigrant Students through Democratic Dialogues
Michael Pezone and Alan Singer
When dialogue replaces debate, students feel more comfortable expressing their opinions, and are more open to the viewpoints of others.

Getting a Grip on Geography
Kristin M. Roberts
A new teacher facing the challenge of a geography class engages students with a "hands-on" approach to puzzling out the world's continents.

Korean Education: Focusing on the Future
Richard Diem, Tedd Levy and Ronald VanSickle
The Republic of Korea has a vision for education; lifelong learning enabled by modern technology will constitute its new "Edutopia."

Transforming Education in Hungary
Cathy Kaufman
The struggle for new civic identities in an emerging democracy is inevitably reflected in attitudes towards the educational system.

Developing Democratic Citizens for Emerging Democracies in Africa
Nelly Ukpokodu
The attempt to institute democractic education in many African nations takes place against a backdrop of authoritarian models-both colonial and traditional.

Why Do Social Studies Teachers Use Textbooks? The Answer May Lie in Economic Theory
Mark C. Schug, Richard D. Western and Larry G. Enochs
Public choice theory suggests that teachers use textbooks when they judge their costs and
benefits to be more attractive than those of other teaching methods.

Point of View
Appeasing the Right, Missing the Point? Reading the New York State Social Studies Framework
S. G. Grant
The "reform" of the New York State social studies curriculum may be read as a casualty of the current history "wars" or-worse yet-as a missed opportunity.

Book Reviews