1. C. Wright Mills ,The Sociological Imagination( New York : Grove Press, Inc. , 1961 ). p. 3 .
2. This relates to the nature of scientific inquiry and the tendency in social studies education to reduce disciplined inquiry to a series of predefined, foolproof steps.
3. H. Millard Clements , William Fiedler and B. Robert Tabachnick ,Social Study: Inquiry in Elementary Classrooms( Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill , 1966 ), p. 13 .
4. Presseisen and D'Amico , “Social Studies Curriculum,” p. 171 .