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Download full textChambliss, Marilyn; Richardson, Wendy; Torney-Purta, Judith; Wilkenfeld, Britt – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2007
Efforts to improve civic education face a conundrum. On the one hand, students report that they are more likely to learn about democracy and citizenship through reading textbooks than through any other activity and according to the National Education Association, reading is the gateway to learning in all content areas. However, reviews of textbook…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 10, Textbooks, Student Motivation
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Direct linkNewton, L. D.; Newton, D. P. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2006
There are concerns about the quality of religious education teaching in England and a national framework for religious education has been developed to give the subject a firmer basis. This basis comprises knowledge, skills and understanding that involves thinking about and with reasons. Teachers of young children cannot be experts in all subjects.…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Hood, Jane C. – Teaching Sociology, 2006
Although all of us must teach against the text at times, I find myself doing this most often when teaching about qualitative methods in the context of a general introductory methods course. Myths about the nature and practice of qualitative research are both embedded in the folklore of mainstream sociology and supported by the textbooks that we…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Qualitative Research, Textbooks, Teaching Methods
Rothman, David – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2006
In his assessment of the current state of e-book technology, David Rothman illustrates the value of e-books for educators, accounts for why the technology has not been more widely embraced, and discusses new developments that suggest a better future for e-books. For educators, particularly distance educators, e-books hold great potential to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Publishing, Intermode Differences, Performance Factors
Nazarova, T. S.; Gospodarik, Iu. P. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
The aim of this article is to map out the priority directions and shape the program for the development of the textbook. The tasks of adjusting the aims of education, renovating the priority directions in the selection of the content of areas of education and school subjects, and improving the tools and means, methods, and organizational forms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Educational Environment
Kelly, Jason M. – International Journal of Social Education, 2009
Every year, historians in the United States attend the American Historical Association (AHA), a conference that has met annually since 1884. The AHA draws scholars from all specializations, and it is the primary organization through which the profession is represented. In 1969, the conference met at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. At…
Descriptors: African American Community, Vietnamese People, Citizenship, Conferences (Gatherings)
