Introduction

If you are reading this introduction, then we are guessing that you are a social studies educator and/or teacher candidate who is interested in finding diverse, authentic, and engaging ways to better prepare your student population for participatory citizenship through the use of primary sources. If so, then this book will be a terrific resource for you. The authors of the chapters in this book are some of the leading thinkers, scholars, and educators in social studies education and routinely utilize primary sources in amazing and dynamic ways in their methods courses, as well as in pre-K–12 classrooms across the country.  

This book was developed as part of the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) project of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) through a grant generously provided by the Library of Congress. NCSS and the University of Central Florida are proud members of the TPS Consortium, which is comprised of educational organizations nationwide to support high-quality teaching and learning using the vast and free public collections of the Library of Congress. This project was born out of a desire to provide first-class resources for teaching with primary sources through the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards.

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Teaching with Primary Sources to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life

The following reference information should be used in the citation of this book:
Waring, S. M. (Ed.). (2024). Teaching with Primary Sources to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life: Volume 1. National Council for the Social Studies.