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About the Authors
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JERE BROPHY was a University Distinguished Professor of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. Author, coauthor, or editor of more than 20 books and 250 scholarly articles, chapters, and technical reports, he is well known for his research on teacher expectations, teacher-student relationships, teacher effects on student achievement, classroom management, student motivation, and, most recently, elementary social studies curriculum and instruction. He was a member of the Task Force on Social Studies Teaching and Learning that prepared the National Council for the Social Studies position statement entitled “A Vision of Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Social Studies: Building Social Understanding and Civic Efficacy.”
JANET ALLEMAN is a Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. She is author and coauthor of a range of publications including Children’s Thinking about Cultural Universals and a three-volume series entitled Social Studies Excursions, K–3. In addition to serving on a host of committees at the state and national levels, she has been a classroom and television teacher, actively working in school settings, and has taught at over a dozen international sites. In 2010, she received the National Council for the Social Studies Jean Dresden Grambs Distinguished Career Research in Social Studies Award.
ANNE-LISE HALVORSEN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Edu- cation at Michigan State University. Her scholarship includes research on the history of education, social studies at the elementary level, curriculum policy, the integration of social studies and literacy, and early childhood education. She is a former kindergarten teacher and has written curriculum materials for lower elementary social studies at the state level.
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