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Conner, Caroline J.; Graham, Taylor C. – Social Studies, 2023
The current study investigates the impact of using an Instructional Model of Historical Empathy to teach the Holocaust on students' ability to contextualize historical events, recognize perspectives, and affectively connect to victims of the Holocaust. A three-day instructional unit was designed that incorporates primary sources from a variety of…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Jews, European History, History Instruction
Polen, J. Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Both government and non-government agencies have decried how poorly today's students are prepared to thrive in the global marketplace. One area of concern, cross-cultural understandings and cross-cultural communication skills, is the basis for this study. A qualitative study using a phenomenological design was chosen in order to collect rich…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Communication Skills, Qualitative Research
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Brooks, Sarah – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2011
This qualitative case study examined the place that historical empathy, as both a subjective and an objective endeavor, occupied in one teacher's instruction and her students' response. Data--collected over five months--include 29 hours of classroom observations in an Advanced Placement European History course, instructional artifacts, and…
Descriptors: European History, Advanced Placement Programs, Rural Schools, Primary Sources
Brooks, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This case study examined the place that perspective recognition and care as components of historical empathy occupy in one history teacher's purpose, instruction, and students' response. Abigail, a high school history teacher, and four tenth grade students from one section of her Advanced Placement European History course participated in this…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, European History, Advanced Placement, Primary Sources
Thorsen, Mark J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study describes the experiences of suburban area high school 10th, 11th, and 12th grade art students immersed in a cross-curricular study of the Holocaust and genocide. Three participant-educators, art teachers, and I, a history teacher, designed a two week curricular unit which was implemented in January, 2010, to increase…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Death, Art Education, Art Teachers
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Levesque, Stephane – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2003
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have had tragic effects for history teachers and students in Canada, the United States, and abroad. Yet, despite increased educational research in historical thinking, very little is known about students' historical understanding of terrorism. This exploratory study looks at some Canadian, but…
Descriptors: Historical Interpretation, Current Events, Terrorism, Educational Research