The Effectiveness of the Expert’s Mantle Strategy in Developing Future Thinking Skills and Achieving Joy of Learning among Middle School Students in the Subject of Social Studies

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Department of Curriculum and Teaching Methods, Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Education, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Abstract

The current study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of the expert’s mantle strategy in developing future thinking skills and achieving joy of learning among middle school students in the social studies subject (geography). The research problem was identified in the weak level of possession of future thinking skills among middle school students in the social studies subject (Geography), so the current study attempts to address this weakness by using one of the modern teaching strategies that takes into account the potential and capabilities of the students. To achieve this goal, the researcher prepared (the teacher’s guide, the student’s activity booklet, Future thinking skills test, learning pleasure scale). A sample of (60) male and female students in the first year of middle school was selected, and they were divided into two experimental and control groups, each with (30) male and female students. Then the researcher taught the experimental group using the expert’s cloak strategy. As for the control group, it was taught in the usual way in schools, and the results resulted in the superiority of the students of the experimental group over the students of the control group in acquiring future thinking skills, and the effectiveness of the expert’s cloak strategy used in developing future thinking skills and achieving the joy of learning among the students (study sample) in the subject of social studies (Geography),  The current study recommended the necessity of building teaching units in the subject of social studies (geography) using teaching strategies concerned with developing future thinking skills and taking into account the needs of students. It also recommended the need to prepare guides for teachers explaining how teaching is planned and implemented in accordance with modern, purposeful learning strategies.

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