Project Mission

The UCSD History-Social Science Project provides its participants enriched content knowledge, new and effective pedagogical strategies, and an ongoing learning community based on five goals:

1. to increase our understanding of history and teaching through the resources provided by our K-12 colleagues, area scholars, the university library, on-line resources, and other local institutions,

2. to create settings in which teachers can think about how students can learn historical ideas by practicing historical methods-interpreting primary sources, exploring cause and effect, creating historical narratives from multiple perspectives, and considering the nature of change.

3. to promote the study of history-social science from multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives, giving voice to the rich diversity of the individuals and groups that compose our contemporary world and classrooms, and have inhabited our world in the past,

4. to nurture the process of professional development for history-social science teachers through critical self-reflection, and

5. to foster collaboration and an "open community" among teachers in K-university, and with the larger community.