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Origins of the Modern Social Studies: 1900–1916

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Michael Lybarger
Michael Lybarger*
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Department of History, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin
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In 1916, the Bureau of Education published The Social Studies in Secondary Education, the final report of the Committee on Social Studies of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education. The Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education was composed of sixteen committees, each addressing one aspect of the curriculum or administration of public education. Historians agree that The Social Studies in Secondary Education along with The Teaching of Community Civics, an earlier report of the Committee on the Social Studies, were among the most influential documents produced by the Commission. Many of the recommendations advanced in both reports, particularly those calling for the development of courses in Community Civics and Problems of American Democracy, were not only widely discussed by contemporaries, but also set the scope and sequence of social studies education which remained virtually unchanged until the early 1970s.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , Winter 1983 , pp. 455 - 468
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Copyright © 1983 by History of Education Society 

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