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Slate, Nico – Research in Drama Education, 2022
Role-play was a popular educational strategy within the American civil rights movement. Many civil rights activists performed the movement in private before performing it again in public. Compared to the scholarship on the role of music in the civil rights movement, the importance of drama has been understudied. The history of role-play as an…
Descriptors: Drama, Role Playing, Civil Rights, Teaching Methods
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Duncan, Kristen E.; Hoover, Jania – Social Education, 2022
Voter participation in elections is the cornerstone of U.S. democracy, yet there is a history of voter suppression and intimidation tactics that specifically target Black Americans which did not cease in the twenty-first century, it merely transformed. Teachers can help students get ahead of voter suppression efforts by making sure students…
Descriptors: Voting, Deception, Misinformation, United States History
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Levine, Thomas H. – Social Studies, 2022
Political history lends itself to traditional patterns of teaching and learning in social studies such as students memorizing facts presented in lectures or textbooks. This article presents a recurring activity structure for teaching U.S. political history--Consensus Circle Presidential Rating (CCPR)--which requires students to read across…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Studies, Democracy, Citizenship Education
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Thibeault, Matthew D. – Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 2022
In this article, I explore John Philip Sousa's historic resistance to music technology and his belief that sound recordings would negatively impact music education and musical amateurism. I review Sousa's primary arguments from two 1906 essays and his testimony to the US Congress from the same year, based on the fundamental premise that machines…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Technology, Resistance to Change, Educational History
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Nelson, Laura K.; Getman, Rebekah; Haque, Syed Arefinul – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
Narrating history is perpetually contested, shaping and reshaping how nations and people understand both their pasts and the current moment. Measuring and evaluating the scope of histories is methodologically challenging. In this paper we provide a general approach and a specific method to measure historical recall. Operationalizing historical…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing, Females
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Pickup, Austin J.; Southall, Aubrey Brammar – Social Studies, 2022
The protests of 2020 cast a national spotlight once again on police brutality and ongoing racial injustice in America. Within this context, many activists and even mainstream commentators have given more attention to a critical analysis of how American history has been taught, especially regarding race relations. The publication of the "1619…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Criticism, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Studies
Daniela Gutierrez Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
During the 2016 elections and the Trump administration, the fight against interlocking systems of oppression--from white supremacy, to transphobia, misogyny, and xenophobia--occupied dominant and minoritized cultural imaginaries, on the news, in fictional representations, on social media. As some outlets even denied the existence of these…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Social Justice, Activism, Oral History
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Shelton, Catharyn; Archambault, Leanna; Harris, Lauren McArthur – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2023
Online educational marketplaces such as TeachersPayTeachers.com (TPT) have become popular among teachers, but the quality of materials offered is inconsistent. This descriptive study explored quality indicators for site materials. Examining a sample of TPT's 100 best-selling 11th-grade U.S. history activities, we compared overall quality scores…
Descriptors: United States History, History Instruction, Learning Activities, Teacher Developed Materials
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Animashaun, Oluwaseun; Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
Amid a pandemic, protests (on masking and mattering), and presidential campaigns in 2020, adults and young folx alike were wading through an exhaustive socio-political milieu, that called for speculation. In this study, students had the opportunity to practice their writing and analytical skills while developing their racial literacy -- the…
Descriptors: Race, Racism, Females, Knowledge Level
Dykzeul, Theodore – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Current 11th grade U.S. History textbooks are Eurocentric and tell a biased portrayal of the country's history. This study analyzed the four most frequently used history textbooks in the most 25 populated school districts across the State of California using a mixed-method design, to show the degree to which they are Eurocentric. The four…
Descriptors: United States History, History Instruction, Textbook Evaluation, Grade 11
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Alexandra S. Antohin; Kathleen Grady, Contributor; Joe Rivers, Contributor; Mary Rizos, Contributor; Don Taylor, Contributor – Journal of Folklore and Education, 2023
Folklife, a type of inquiry that focuses on "ways of life" as its central lens, is constantly changing. Rather than focus on cultural loss or salvaging, folklife inquiry is more powerful when it is positioned to offer insights about human experience through the sharing of personal lived histories in safe and supportive environments. At…
Descriptors: Oral History, Folk Culture, Educational Resources, Local History
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Yonghee Suh – Teacher Development, 2025
This study examined the learning trajectory of five US humanities teachers when navigating learning to teach the difficult history of school desegregation within a context of a six-month inquiry-based professional development. The research questions were: What do teachers frame as problems when teaching difficult histories? How do they…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Humanities
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Nichols, Jeananne – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2021
A central understanding of narrative scholarship is that stories are ever in process, taking shape in each recounting according to the needs, purposes, and understandings of the teller. Sometimes participants share accounts that are incomplete or inaccurate, shrink from voicing their feelings, or silence their accounting altogether. In this study,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Researchers, Responsibility, Personal Narratives
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Misco, Thomas; Molina, Estevan; Schultz, Brian – Social Studies, 2021
The United States has a lengthy history of welcoming immigrants from throughout the world and ultimately naturalizing and conferring citizenship to them. Yet, a number of indigenous and people of color never consented to citizenship and many still do not wish to have it. This article explores the role of citizenship as a tool to not only…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Indigenous Populations, Citizenship, Acculturation
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García, Nicolas; Gonzales, Anthony – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2021
Mexican American Studies (MAS) courses have been criticized for many years. Legislation in Arizona and Texas have attempted to ban the content. This article pushes back on this attempt of oppression and offers MAS teachers a framework to apply when teaching the content. Using a timeline to depict the years of attempts for Mexican American Studies…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Mexican Americans, Secondary Education, United States History
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