CANADIAN SOCIAL STUDIES
VOLUME 41 NUMBER 1, FALL 2008
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From the Editor: Back Again!!!

With this issue, Canadian Social Studies resumes publication after a hiatus of two years. In the coming months we will be launching a new version of the journal that will offer scholars and practitioners a venue to contribute to and read about cutting edge research and practice in the field.

In some ways the articles in the Fall 2008 issue pre-figure this new approach in that they address the interdisciplinary nature of social studies education and suggest ways we might reconceptualize the discipline. Ranging from Michael Barbour and David Evans’ thoughtful engagement with the iconic “Heritage Minutes” series to Andrew Foran’s investigation of the ways we might reconnect social studies to historical places outside school settings, the authors in this issue invite us to re-examine our conceptual frameworks and pedagogical approaches to “doing” social studies.

George Richardson