Lauren Brown—Social Studies Content at the Elementary Level

About this episode

Lauren Brown discusses the importance of social studies and history education at the elementary level.

Watch Lauren on The Teaching Show Substack: Lauren Brown on Education Lauren Brown’s articles on MiddleWeb About The Guest Lauren Brown spent about 20 years teaching US history in middle and high schools and another eight years working at the university level with future social studies teachers. She now works as a consultant and writer on MiddleWeb and her own Substack. She writes about education with a special focus on why social studies and history in particular matter. Much of her work is about helping people see how good history teaching strengthens, not just literacy, but our democracy as well.

People in this episode

Host: Justin Baeder

Guest: Lauren Brown

Topics covered

• social studies
• elementary education
• history teaching
• democracy
• literacy

Keywords

• social studies
• elementary education
• history
• literacy
• democracy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MiddleWeb, The Teaching Show Substack, US history

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