This study highlights a range of perspectives offered by 11 international
teachers, participating in a cultural immersion experience, as they reflect on
how they saw democracy manifested at their school internships. Teachers from six
different countries studied and taught in a rural community in the Southern
United States, where a medium-sized research university hosted the teachers as
part of a f... hiện toàn bộ
Although Occupy Wall Street may no longer appear in news headlines, the
international movement provides a rich curriculum on space and protest that are
worthy of contemplation in social studies classrooms and research. This paper
looks historically at how location and free speech became linked and informed
one another during the 20th century in the US. It then looks critically at three
sites of Oc... hiện toàn bộ
Civic media literacy entails understanding complex topics and events that are
increasingly mediated by digital sources of information and where it can be
challenging to evaluate the reliability merits of these sources. The goal of
this study was to discern the ways undergraduate preservice social studies
teachers with different climate change beliefs read and evaluated the
reliability of four dive... hiện toàn bộ
States are beginning to restructure their U.S. history assessments from previous
multiple-choice based assessments to include written-response questions that
have higher levels of academic language demands. These higher-order thinking and
analytical items pose challenges to linguistically and culturally diverse
students. The purpose of the current study is to investigate how the
restructuring of a... hiện toàn bộ
This study investigates how students’ national identity affects their historical
understanding by mediating their use of affective historical empathy. The
research focuses on the case of “comfort women” (women forced into sexual
slavery for Japanese soldiers during WWII) in South Korea—a topic in which a
strong nationalist narrative dominates social and educational discourses. I
conducted semi-str... hiện toàn bộ
The U.S. Civil Rights Movement (CRM) is a relevant K-6 topic to learn
foundational concepts of social justice and participatory citizenship. Year
after year, though, U.S. elementary school lessons typically focus on a Martin
Luther King, Jr.-Rosa Parks centered narrative, adapted for character education.
This qualitative inquiry invited 66 pre-service teachers to explore social
justice education e... hiện toàn bộ
Casey Holmes, Nina R. Schoonover, Ashley A. Atkinson
This case study explores the use of collaborative book clubs and word sorts to
influence teacher positionality in an undergraduate social studies methods
course for pre-service teachers. Drawing upon existing literature that suggests
the effectiveness of dialogue as a means of navigating prior beliefs and the
benefits of collaborative spaces for teachers to engage in collegial
discussions, the stu... hiện toàn bộ
The educational reform movement in social studies has focused on constructivist
and inquiry-oriented approaches to the teaching of history. Since many social
studies teacher education students have had little experience with such
approaches in their own schooling, special attention needs to be given to these
topics within teacher preparation programs if they are to be implemented in
schools. One p... hiện toàn bộ
The body of research on civic education points to the importance of teachers
creating open democratic environments, leading to what has been termed the
political classroom. This yearlong study of an Israeli multicultural and
bilingual high school civics course, in which students from different
citizenship status participated, presents a case in which teachers were
unsuccessful in achieving this go... hiện toàn bộ
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tế hóa đã đặt ra đối với việc chuẩn bị cho giáo viên dạy các môn xã hội. Dựa
trên các nghiên cứu về quan điểm toàn cầu trong giáo dục giáo viên, nghiên cứu
này đã xem xét những gì một nhóm giáo viên tương lai đã học được về toàn cầu hóa
trong quá trình tham gia một mô phỏng quan hệ quốc tế trực tuyến kéo dài ba
tuần. ... hiện toàn bộ