Abstract
The chief aim of this paper is to examine the developmental process of Holt Social Studies in New Social Studies, which is the representative plan of Social Sciences Education, by analyzing the educational research that Edwin Fenton carried out in 1950' s and I960' s. In conclusion, the following are pointed out. Dr. Fenton carried out research into the Teaching of History for social cognition on the Advanced Placement Program in 1959-1963 and the Pittsburgh Scholarship Program in 1963-1966. Therefore he had instituted social science courses connected with history courses so that students could explore to application of facts about social sciences to historical events, and had taken "the study of history by students" as a learning method in history courses. These studies connected to the development of Holt social Studies.
