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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.

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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
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