Using Technology to Prepare Critically Thinking Global Citizens
Social Studies Research and Practice
ISSN: 1933-5415
Article publication date: 1 November 2010
Issue publication date: 1 November 2010
Abstract
Social studies teachers possess a daunting task in a 21st century environment of economic-mindedness and technological infatuation. In a setting of individualism and instant gratification, enabling a future citizenry to realize the patterns of economic disparity and to accept their responsibilities towards other less fortunate citizens provides a formidable challenge. The authors interpret understandings of citizenship as being closely related to conceptualizations of economics and view methods by which classrooms employ instructional technology as paramount to exploring these associations. This paper conveys how technology represents an instructional resource that may foster exploration and examination of these relationships and describes a student-centered cooperative instructional model for its classroom implementation.
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Citation
Wilson, E. and Besnoy, K. (2010), "Using Technology to Prepare Critically Thinking Global Citizens", Social Studies Research and Practice, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 119-138. https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-03-2010-B0013
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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