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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

Most importantly, I want the course content to be relevant to their lives as future teachers, and I want them to see themselves as civic and political actors. In support of this claim, preservice teachers may point to the ways that inquiry can work to interrogate complex topics while allowing students to come to their own conclusions.