National board for professional teaching standardsの設立と現状に関する考察

Abstract

Social studies/history teachers deal with big issues: Who are we, and where do we come from? Why do people believe the things they do, and how do they find meaning in their lives? Why have people organized their societies, economies, and environments in so many different ways, and why do they still? What causes conflict, and how can it be prevented—or should it be? What accounts for poverty and inequality, prejudice and discrimination, or the success and failure of nations? What influences the choices people make? How can we treat each other more humanely, and how can we communicate across our differences? And how do we come to know the answers to any of these questions? In exploring such issues, social studies/history teachers engage students in the most fascinating, exhilarating, maddening, and even confusing topics known to humanity: The origin and spread of scientific ideas, religions, and ideologies; the nature of people, places, and environments; the meeting of cultures and the exchange of ideas; changes in love, marriage, and the family; the rise of democracies and dictatorships. Students learn about the Holocaust, civil rights, women’s suffrage, slavery, torture, natural disasters, immigration, Confucius, international trade, the Enlightenment, human rights, Hiroshima, gender roles, Crazy Horse, the end of apartheid, Normandy, the printing press, Thomas Jefferson, revolutions, disease, and even rock and roll.