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Sailer, John D. – National Association of Scholars, 2022
This study examines the civics education offered in Texas, looking first at the American history and government requirements at the state's top public universities. Texas's six public universities that rank highest in the U.S. News and World Report 2022 rankings have been selected: The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), Texas A&M…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Universities, History Instruction
Lauren Gail Santarelli – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study employed a qualitative content analysis design to examine the extent to which 8th and 11th-grade U.S. History textbooks, adopted by the State of Texas, foster historical empathy and disciplinary knowledge and skills in the subject of history through student engagement with textbook activities. The textbook activities collected for this…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Grade 8, Grade 11, Textbooks
Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon; Wanzek, Jeanne; Furman, Gleb; Martinez, Leticia; Sargent, Katherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Promoting Adolescents' Comprehension of Text (PACT) is a text- and discourse-based set of instructional practices that engage students with disciplinary texts as a means of building content knowledge and improving reading comprehension. PACT)s "efficacy" has been the subject of extensive previous trials. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, History Instruction, United States History, Reading Comprehension
Debby Shulsky; Sheila Baker; Renée E. Lastrapes – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2023
In December 2021, Texas lawmakers passed a bill related to the national debate and politicization of critical race theory (CRT). Texas Senate Bill 3 seemingly limits the teaching of "sensitive" topics. These perceived limitations may present challenges for social studies teachers in the state. This study examines the knowledge and…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Critical Race Theory, Political Attitudes, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Mendoza, Juan J. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences of teachers about the use of active learning techniques in high school United States history courses at a lower Rio Grande Valley school district. The study employed a phenomenology design for rich textural descriptions and a systematic exploration of the phenomenon of active learning…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, United States History, History Instruction, Active Learning
Lauren Funk – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Polarization in the United States and controversy over the teaching of content some deem "divisive" has resulted in the enactment of restrictive legislation in many states. Such constraints contribute to a fraught environment in schools today and significantly impact the work of teaching. Utilizing frameworks of "ambitious…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, History Instruction, Political Issues, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Christina A. Wilbur – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As community colleges strive to prepare students for an increasingly interconnected world, this study investigated the challenges and opportunities in internationalizing history curriculum at these institutions. The research addressed the limited understanding of community college history faculty's perceptions and experiences regarding…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Community Colleges, International Education, Curriculum Development
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
Rendering Latinas Invisible: The Underrepresentation of Latina Role Models in K-12 History Textbooks
Leslie, Angela M. – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2021
There is a lack of research on the prevalence of Latinas in K-12 history textbooks. This research offers a content analysis of the unique gendered contributions of Latinas in history to fulfill this gap in educational research. Twelve middle and high school textbooks were examined using content analysis to assess the extent of Latina inclusion in…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Females, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Morton, Tami; Dyer, Jennifer – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2022
This article provides an in-depth examination of differentiation, instructional strategies that cater to all learners. Differentiation is beneficial when teachers can select content, process, and products that meet student's needs. While teachers incorporate differentiation to modify instruction with struggling students, gifted and talented…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, African American Students
Skinner, Nadine Ann; Bromley, Patricia – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
Formal schooling in the U.S. has a long and violent history towards Indigenous peoples, today morphing into exclusion and erasure. Using a novel longitudinal dataset of U.S. textbooks (n = 193) from California and Texas, published from 1850 to 2019, we seek to shine light on the issue through a comprehensive analysis of depictions of Indigenous…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, History Instruction, United States History
McClure, Patricia S. – Whiteness and Education, 2023
Race shapes the policies and history of the United States. Current research shows that state-approved social studies content standards are written in a non-racial and colour-evasive whiteness language that reinforces racist policies and practices in education. This qualitative framework analysis study examines the language of social studies…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Academic Standards, State Standards, Language Usage
Kristen Paige Kelton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The relationship between quantity of instructor to student interactions in online, asynchronous, course-specific courses at the community college level is under-researched. This quantitative, correlational study examined the relationship between the weekly number of instructor-generated posts and two course outcomes within fully online history…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, History Instruction, Outcomes of Education
Khan, Nafees M. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
The United States and Brazil were the two largest slave societies in the history of New World slavery, and the legacies of that history remain salient in both nations. Slavery and the slave trade are important topics to be taught in history courses, and future generations need to be given accurate information about the history and legacies of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Slavery, History Instruction, Textbooks
Carbajal, Mark Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Previous research has focused on various methods, strategies and concepts that impact the teaching of history in classrooms (Brush & Saye, 2002; Hicks, Doolittle & Ewing, 2004; Levstik & Barton, 2011; Shepherd, 2010). However, research that examines the practice of using the reenactment process in regard to teachers' beliefs and…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Junior High School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Role Playing