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The Examination of Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Controversial Public Issues: Explicitly Teaching the Holocaust and Comparative Genocide
Robert A. WatersonThis study reflects an examination of four teachers and their approaches to teaching the Holocaust and comparative genocide. The purpose was to address four succinct research…
The “Building Tasks” of Critical History: Structuring Social Studies for Social Justice
Wayne AuUsing research in curriculum studies, New Literacy Studies, and discourse analysis, the author examines two illustrative cases of social studies teachers who actively structure…
High School Social Studies Teachers’ Attitudes Toward English Language Learners
Jason L. O'BrienThis study examined the attitudes of high school social studies teachers toward the inclusion of English language learners (ELLs) in their social studies classrooms. A mixed-model…
Framing American Indians as the “First Americans”: Using Critical Multiculturalism to Trouble the Normative American Story
Annalee GoodThe author addresses ways in which secondary American history textbooks reflect and perpetuate the normative American story and identity by framing American Indians as the “first…
Implications of Changes in Readings in a Social Studies Graduate Class for Curriculum and Instruction: Two Scenarios
Bob PettapieceThis article describes two scenarios and changes made to a graduate readings course in social studies education over two years in order to align it with constructivist and…
Reclaiming Generalizations in Social Studies Education
James Shiveley, Thomas MiscoThis article argues that the teaching of generalizations in today’s social studies classrooms is seldom done well, if at all, and that it is time to reestablish this strategy as…
Elementary School Students, Artifacts and Primary Sources: Learning to Engage in Historical Inquiry
Cheryl Franklin Torrez, Scott M. WaringThis article highlights some of the experiences of elementary students learning to use primary sources to engage in historical inquiry. Two teacher educators developed and taught…
Preferences and Attitudes toward Accommodations of Traditional Assessment in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms
Derry L. Stufft, Dona Bauman, Michelle OhlsenWith the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act and the reauthorization of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, inclusion of children with special needs is no longer…
Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial by Ronald Kidd
Michael G. LovornState of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes tested the legality of the Butler Act which made it unlawful for public school teachers “to teach any theory that denies the story of the…
Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan Good Fortune: My Journey to Gold Mountain by Li Keng Wong
Tamara Korenman, Agnieszka KozielskaThis lesson utilizes Good Fortune: My Journey to Gold Mountain, a well-written autobiography that tells of one family’s story of immigration to the US through Angel Island in the…
Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan Rudy Rides the Rails: A Depression Era Story by Dandi Daley Mackall
Melinda Odom StaubsThis technology-infused lesson uses the historical fiction book, Rudy Rides the Rails, which is based on the real “Ramblin’ Rudy” who rode in railroad cars searching for work…
Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Ursula Thomas, Janet StricklandThis lesson integrates social studies, reading, language arts, and technology. Students are involved in reading historical fiction, examining authentic documents, and completing a…
Ms. Lillie M. H. Fincher: A Luminary African-American Educator in Pre- and Post-Integration in the South
Lois McFadyen ChristensenThis piece is about how elementary and secondary social studies students participate in transformational social studies education for social justice through oral history. The…
Teaching Social Studies to the Media Generation
Patrice Preston-GrimesResearch has shown that middle and high school students, historically, have had a less than favorable opinion of social studies instruction (Hobbs & Moroz, 2001), a situation…
Hot Off the Presses: Podcasting for the Economics Classroom
Mark Hofer, Kathy SwanDespite the recent interest and production of quality podcasts freely available online, there are relatively few podcasts available for K-12 teachers of economics. We see this as…
ISSN:
1933-5415Online date, start – end:
2006Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Cynthia Sunal