If you’re an enthusiastic elementary teacher or teacher educator with great ideas that you’ve implemented in the classroom, we invite you to share your work in Social Studies and the Young Learner, which is a peer-reviewed journal. Here are some upcoming themes. We also welcome pieces that do not fit these particular themes, as well as reviews of children literature and books for teachers.

Theme: “Cultivating Civic Life through Studying Current Events”

How do we help elementary students explore current events (local, national, and global) in ways that support their civic development? How can we present multiple perspectives in ways that make sense to young learners? What methods can we employ to instill interest, hopefulness, and civic agency? In this issue we ask authors to share ideas for connecting civic life in and out of the classroom through the study of current events. Articles should be no more than 3,000 words.

Submissions: Deadline is July 15, 2016

Please send your manuscript to Guest Editors Kathryn Obenchain
and Julie Pennington at kobench@purdue.edu for this issue only.

Issue: January/February 2017

Theme: “Agency and Empowerment with Younger Learners”

Young children often willingly and enthusiastically discuss and act upon issues of fairness and unfairness. How can social studies educators help young learners see themselves as agents in greater capacities? This issue examines and presents ways in which children have been agents in various locations throughout the world and at different points in time. What strategies and approaches have you used to empower your younger learners and facilitate their capacity to become agents?

Submissions Deadline: November 15, 2016
Issue: March/April 2017

Tips for authors can be found by clicking on the “tips” tab at www.socialstudies.org/publications/ssyl. Send inquiries and manuscripts to ssyl@ncss.org. Editor, Scott Waring, University of Central Florida—Orlando