Illinois Council for the Social Studies

ICSS provides professional development opportunities, publications, and service to Illinois teachers

The Illinois Council for the Social Studies (ICSS) was founded in 1938 in order to improve social studies teaching, to develop the professional interests of social studies instructors, and to cooperate with other organizations working for a better social understanding in the state, nation, and world. ICSS provides professional development opportunities, publications, and service to Illinois teache

Submission Guidelines | Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning | Purdue University Press Open Access Journals | Purdue University

02/20/2018

Illinois Social Studies writers: please consider submitting a manuscript to The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning (IJPBL) special strand focused on economics, citizenship, or moral education. Manuscripts may address any one or combination of these areas.
The journal publishes research, analysis, or promising practice articles related to K-12 and post-secondary classrooms. The journal publishes manuscripts that explore inquiry methods, project-based learning, or problem based learning within economics, citizenship and/or moral education.
Theory into practice articles are especially welcome, describing the use of problem-based, project-based, or inquiry methods. Empirical (data-driven) and conceptual (grounded in theory) manuscripts are also being solicited.
Please consider submitting your 20 to 30-page manuscript using 6th Edition APA formatting guidelines by March 15. The submission link is provided on the right hand side of website at the following link: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/ijpbl/policies.html. When submitting through the on-line system, please include “Special Strand 2019” in the title for tracking purposes.
All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by experts in the primary content area of the author’s discipline.
For questions or concerns about this special strand, please contact the guest editors:
Mary Beth Henning, [email protected]
Tom Lucey, [email protected]
Earl Levingston, [email protected]

Submission Guidelines | Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning | Purdue University Press Open Access Journals | Purdue University Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning is an Open Access journal. This means that it uses a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. Readers may freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles. This journa...

02/20/2018

Illinois Council for the Social Studies - Conferences

02/20/2018

It's exciting that Illinois Council for the Social Studies will hold the Spring Conference in Charleston, Illinois at Eastern Illinois University. Our department, Eastern Illinois University History Department, Eastern Illinois University Sandra and Jack Pine Honors College, and EIU Graduate School will have a host of attendees and presenters!

Anchor | Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources

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NBC Learn - K12 | Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources

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