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Jennifer C. Mann; Sarah Williams – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2024
As the number of displaced people increases, providing refugee-background students with critically engaging classrooms is essential. Supporting diverse learners, while focusing on issues of social justice and equity, critical literacy facilitates a perspective where texts are analyzed for underlying messages of power and sociopolitical issues.…
Descriptors: Refugees, Personal Autonomy, Equal Education, Background
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Greiner, Jeff A. – Social Studies, 2016
The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), in the state of North Carolina, has gone through considerable recent effort to revise, support, and assess their seventh-grade social studies curriculum in an effort to serve three goals: comply with the Common Core State Standards (Common Core), comply with the North Carolina Essential Standards…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Social Studies, Public Schools, Common Core State Standards
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Simic-Muller, Ksenija; Fernandes, Anthony; Felton-Koestler, Mathew D. – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2015
In this article, the authors report on the initial results of a mixed methods study that examined the beliefs that preservice teachers have about teaching real-world contexts, including those related to injustices, controversial issues, and children's home and cultural backgrounds. Data collection included a survey with 92 preservice Pre-K-8…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education