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Harris, Lauren McArthur, Ed.; Sheppard, Maia, Ed.; Levy, Sara A., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Despite limitations and challenges, teaching about difficult histories is an essential aspect of social studies courses and units across grade levels. This practical resource highlights stories of K-12 practitioners who have critically examined and reflected on their experiences with planning and teaching histories identified as difficult.…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Studies, Lesson Plans, Curriculum Development
Vosburg-Bluem, Bethany, Ed.; Crocco, Margaret, Ed.; Passe, Jeff, Ed. – National Council for the Social Studies, 2022
One of the most urgent contemporary challenges is to ensure a sustainable planet for future generations. The analysis of environmental problems and the best strategies for dealing with them should be an integral component of social studies education. This e-book offers essential information and recommends exemplary methods for teaching about…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Social Problems, Barriers, Social Studies
Vavrus, Michael – Teachers College Press, 2022
This timely book examines how fascist ideology has taken hold among certain segments of American society and how this can be addressed in curriculum and instruction. Vavrus presents middle, secondary, and college educators and their students with a conceptual framework for enacting a critical multicultural pedagogy by analyzing discriminatory…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Teaching Methods, Multicultural Education, Civics
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Zajda, Joseph, Ed.; Davidovitch, Nitza, Ed.; Majhanovich, Suzanne, Ed. – Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 2023
This book examines dominant discourses in multiculturalism and cultural identity globally. It critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to multiculturalism and cultural identity, set against the current backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses current discourses concerning…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Global Approach, Self Concept, Cultural Awareness
Thomas DeVere Wolsey; Diane Lapp – Guilford Press, 2024
This successful guide--now in a revised and expanded second edition--gives teachers effective strategies to support adolescents' development of relevant literacy skills in specific disciplines. Demonstrating why disciplinary literacies matter, the authors discuss ways to teach close reading of complex texts; discipline-specific argumentation,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Guides, Intellectual Disciplines, Online Courses
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Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, Editor; Sandy S. C. Li, Editor; Sebastian Pahs, Editor – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2024
In 2021, the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, the funding body for higher education in Hong Kong, initiated a scheme and associated grant fund with the aim of enhancing the use of technology for teaching in higher education institutions in Hong Kong. In the Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University, the funding was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, College Faculty, Teacher Collaboration
Schmitke, Alison; Sabzalian, Leilani; Edmundson, Jeff – Teachers College Press, 2020
The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery is often presented as an exciting adventure story of discovery, friendship, and patriotism. However, this same period in U.S. history can be understood quite differently when viewed through an anticolonial lens and the Doctrine of Discovery. How might educators critically interrogate the assumptions that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, History Instruction, United States History
Woolley, Mary – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2019
This book explores changing practice in history classrooms from the autonomy of the 1980s through the introduction of GCSEs and the National Curriculum to the prescription of the National Strategies and the pervasive influence of league tables in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It uses individual narratives from history teachers to…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Barriers
Dunn, Alyssa Hadley – Teachers College Press, 2021
What should teachers do on the days after major events, tragedies, and traumas, especially when injustice is involved? This beautifully written book features teacher narratives and youth-authored student spotlights that reveal what classrooms do and can look like in the wake of these critical moments. Dunn incisively argues for the importance of…
Descriptors: Current Events, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, History Instruction
Palframan, Shirley – Routledge Research in Education, 2021
"Multimodal Signs of Learning" proposes a methodology to uncover evidence of learning in students' multimodal compositions. Informed by social semiotic theory, the book tracks representation of subject content from physical and embodied teaching resources to students' handmade artefacts and physical presentations. Using materials from…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Secondary School Students, History Instruction, Science Instruction
Metro, Rosalie – Teachers College Press, 2020
This book offers the tools teachers need to get started with a more thoughtful and compelling approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives today, and meets social studies 3C standards and most state standards (grades 6-12). The author provides over 90 primary…
Descriptors: History Instruction, World History, Thematic Approach, Social Studies
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Zajda, Joseph, Ed.; Tsyrlina-Spady, Tatyana, Ed.; Lovorn, Michael, Ed. – Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 2017
"Globalisation and Historiography of National Leaders: Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks," the 18th book in the 24-volume book series "Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research," explores the interrelationship between ideology, national identity, national history and historical heroes, setting it in a…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Historiography, Ideology, Nationalism
Martell, Christopher C.; Stevens, Kaylene M. – Teachers College Press, 2020
Learn how to enact justice-oriented pedagogy and foster students' critical engagement in today's history classroom. Over the past 2 decades, various scholars have rightfully argued that we need to teach students to "think like a historian" or "think like a democratic citizen." In this book, the authors advocate for cultivating…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Social Justice, Democratic Values
Sawyer, Keith – Teachers College Press, 2019
"The Creative Classroom" presents an original, compelling vision of schools where teaching and learning are centered on creativity. Drawing on the latest research as well as his studies of jazz and improvised theater, Sawyer describes curricula and classroom practices that will help educators get started with a new style of teaching,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Creative Activities
Percoco, James A. – Stenhouse Publishers, 2017
In "Take the Journey," author, historian, and educator James Percoco invites you and your students to the places where many events in American history happened. The Journey Through Hallowed Ground is a 180-mile National Heritage area encompassing such historic sites as the Gettysburg battlefield and Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello.…
Descriptors: History Instruction, United States History, Place Based Education, Teaching Methods
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