


| Call for Manuscripts The Journal of the Middle States Council for the Social Studies, Winter 2010/11 Number 2 Editor: Dr. Catherine Gatewood, Interim Associate Dean, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Deadline for Submission: September 15, 2010 All of us on the Board of Directors of the Middle States Council for the Social Studies and the Editorial Review Board of The Journal were thrilled to see the 2009/10 edition come to fruition after a long hiatus. As editor, it was gratifying to see the overwhelming number of submissions from all over the country we received and to see the finished product go to the mailroom here at Lock Haven University. As I write my second Call for Manuscripts, I am looking out at the beginnings of a beautiful spring knowing many of you will take time this summer to write and I ask you to consider submitting a manuscript for consideration. The goal has not changed. As always, social studies educators hope to read and learn from each other in regard to best practices in social studies education, citizenship education, research and pedagogy. It is our desire to include two sections in this upcoming edition. The first section will have a focus on interdisciplinary instruction. If you are collaborating with teachers of English Language Arts or in other subject areas we would like you to share your research and experiences. For example, are you teaching a unit on the Holocaust and working with the English department in regard to Holocaust Literature? What works and what doesn’t? What makes a successful collaborative team? What special challenges does it offer? What benefits? We wish our second section to be more of an applied section that offers us discussion on successful unusual lessons, different content ideas, or looking at social studies from a different lens. Our feature article for this edition will be from Heidi Hemming and Julie Hemming Savage who have recently published a textbook entitled, Women Making America geared to ninth graders that reveals lives of regular and extraordinary women in the context of US History. In this section we strongly encourage submissions from graduate students studying social studies and curriculum, new teachers, and other classroom teachers taking a different approach that they are seeing reap benefit in their classroom. GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPTS The Middle States Council for the Social Studies seeks manuscripts for publication in The JOURNAL that focus the following areas. 1. Best practices in teaching social studies at all levels. 2. Research articles that focus on social studies education and pedagogy. 3. Ways in which to promote global understanding within the social studies classroom. 4. Discussion and research on challenges that social studies researchers and teachers face, especially in light of legislation and curricular standards. 5. Reviews of educational media or unique pedagogy that have been used successfully with students in the classroom. 6. The manuscript must be original and not published previously. We are especially interested in articles that directly relate to social studies teaching, preparation of teachers or unique programs of study developed or implemented by teachers. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION FOR REVIEW Length: Manuscripts, including all references, charts, figures or tables should not exceed fifteen pages (ten to fifteen is acceptable). Preparation details: All submissions must be prepared using a word processing program, be double spaced, and must adhere to the guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition. As well, please provide 1.5 inch margins all around. Submission: Submissions for the Winter 2010/11 issue should be emailed with the subject line: The Journal, Winter 2010/11 to: Dr. Catherine Gatewood, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania at cgatewoo@lhup.edu. In the message area please type an abstract that describes or summarizes the manuscript in 100-150 words. All submissions must have a cover page that includes the following on a separate sheet: • Title of the manuscript • Date of submission • Author’s name, institutional affiliation or school, complete mailing address, business phone number, fax number, and email address. • Decisions: Authors will be notified of the receipt of the manuscript via email and notification of the status of the manuscript will take place after the deadline. FYI For Your Information FYI is the MSCSS newsletter. Please submit articles, pictures, announcements lesson plans and any other interesting social studies news and/or resources to the FYI editor. LEO WEST EDITOR FYI wlrw@yahoo.com |