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Muetterties, Carly C.; DiGiacomo, Daniela; New, Ryan – Democracy & Education, 2022
Many civic education initiatives have developed across the United States in order to help prepare students for civic engagement in school-based settings. At the same time, research shows that quality of school-based civic learning opportunities remains insufficient, inconsistent, and inequitable. In this article, we propose a framework of civic…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Social Studies
Hardy, Richard J.; Schlag, Paul A.; Boeckelman, Keith – Honors in Practice, 2022
The United States Constitution is the bedrock upon which government and society rest, yet its precepts remain generally unfamiliar to contemporary college students. Considering the extent of its impact and the misinformation regarding its purpose, content, efficacy, and limits, the authors provide suggestions for civic learning based on this…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Civics, United States History, Constitutional Law
Kathy Swan; Alicia McCollum; Kelli Lemaster; Helena Sands; Tanya Schmidt – Social Education, 2024
Shifting to an inquiry-based practice can be challenging. How should teachers get started? How many times should teachers plan for inquiry? What do teachers do when students struggle with inquiry? How long does it take for students to buy in to the inquiry process? These kinds of questions, and the concerns that underlie them, can create an…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Social Studies, Curriculum Design, Grade 6
Irasema Mora-Pablo; Ana Karen Ocampo-Márquez – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This study examined the collateral effects of deportation on the children of mixed-immigration households where the father is Mexican and has been deported, the mother is American, and the children were born in the United States. These children are American citizens by birth, but after spending most of their lives in the United States, they begin…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Mexicans, Mexican Americans, Adjustment (to Environment)
Henry A. Giroux – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
This article examines how the concept of freedom has been appropriated by the far right to impose a number of authoritarian policies designed to dismantle the critical functions of public and higher education. It explores, in particular, the ways in which Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has used an appeal to freedom to punish critics,…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Educational Policy, Political Issues, Politics of Education
Kerry Burch – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2024
While the project of consolidating democracy into a durable and highly esteemed value in American culture has always been difficult to sustain, especially within the public schools, the struggle now assumes the character of a grave and inescapable need. Given the authoritarian and fascist resurgence across the globe, democracy and its accompanying…
Descriptors: Democracy, Cultural Context, Civics, Democratic Values
Justice, Benjamin – History of Education Quarterly, 2023
Schooling in the United States has never been a public good, nor has "the public good" been its primary goal. Since its origins in the early nineteenth century, schooling has been a "white" good, designed to promote white advantage. Three mechanisms, among many, have been key to this process: the relationship of schooling to…
Descriptors: Education, Whites, Racial Factors, Racism
Dickenson, Beau; Thacker, Emma – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2023
This article details how a team of fourth-grade teachers in Rockingham County, Virginia used the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) to deepen student understanding of Barbara Johns and the Moton Student Strike's fight for racial justice in Virginia and to reframe their overall approach to Black history in general. Although Rockingham County Schools are…
Descriptors: Race, Social Justice, Blacks, African Americans
Driskell, Wyatt – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
This article uses Charles W. Mills' Racial Contract to interrogate the political, historical, and philosophical roots of the conservative campaign against critical race theory (CRT) in schools. Prescribing that political power will be used to maintain a white supremacist racial hierarchy, the Racial Contract connects itself to American schools…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Political Issues, Racism, United States History
Flynn, Joseph; Kahn, Elizabeth; Werderich, Donna E. – Middle School Journal, 2023
It is important to prepare middle level teacher candidates with the dispositions, content knowledge, and pedagogy needed to implement justice-oriented practices in middle level curriculum. This article explores using "Hateful Things," a traveling exhibit curated by the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, to integrate issues of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Racism, Primary Sources, Social Justice
Aguilera, Jocelyn Isabel – History Teacher, 2023
Examining the political activism of high school students provides a window to fully understand the rich history and resistance of young people of color from South Central Los Angeles who blazed the trail in many crucial battles during the civil rights era. Researching John C. Fremont High School's history shows that the high school reflects a…
Descriptors: Activism, High School Students, Females, Minority Groups
Lori-Ann Newman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The United States history survey course is a standard high school history class in the state of New York. The academic goal is for students to understand key people and developments that molded the United States into its modern identity as a progressive, democratic nation-state. This research examined one manifestation of this course in New York…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary, Language Usage, History Instruction
Hannah K. D’Apice; Patricia Bromley – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Anthropogenic climate change is a scientific fact, but U.S. public discourse around the issue remains mired in controversy, including in education. Our study leverages natural language processing methods to give a precise look into the extent to which climate change-related topics are covered in 30 of the most widely used high school history…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Discourse Analysis, United States History
Kretsinger-Harries, Anne C. – Communication Teacher, 2021
Courses: Rhetorical criticism, public address, persuasion, public memory theory, argumentation. Objectives: Through analysis of public controversies about Confederate monuments on college campuses, students will: (1) explore the concept of "public memory," how groups of people form shared interpretations of the past; (2) examine how…
Descriptors: Memory, United States History, Controversial Issues (Course Content), College Environment
Lander, Jessica – Educational Leadership, 2021
When teaching a course on American diversity, Jessica Lander realized that to understand the complexity of justice-related policies and events in U.S. history, students needed to relate personally. She had students write personal reflections on what it means to be American, which dealt with issues from immigration journeys, learning a new…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Diversity, Multicultural Education