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Direct linkMorgan, Verity – Teaching History, 2022
In order to contextualise and make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic, Verity Morgan worked with her school's long-standing partner school in Ghana to devise an innovative project combining history and science, past and present. In this article, Morgan sets out the rationale for the project, her detailed adaptation of a British Council resource and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, History Instruction, Science Education
Mbatha, Waahida – Rethinking Schools, 2012
The author knew that most of her students viewed Africa as a homogeneous place and, moreover, a place that they wanted no connection to. She wanted to be sure that she presented Africa in a way that empowered students and made them proud of their ancestry, as opposed to leaving them feeling the shame and humiliation that she once felt. She wanted…
Descriptors: African American Students, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Slavery
Lowe, Tony B.; Dozier, Cheryl D.; Hunt-Hurst, Patricia; Smith, Bettye P. – College Student Journal, 2008
This article describes development of an interdisciplinary study abroad program to West Africa at the University of Georgia to help students gain a global perspective. The program is interdisciplinary with several disciplines including social work, clothing and textile, history, and teacher education. This article discusses/highlights a need for a…
Descriptors: International Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Global Approach, Program Content
Peer reviewedAdair, Nancy A. – English Journal, 2000
Describes a project in which students at a school in Ghana develop an authentic but fictitious character who is captured and sold to the Europeans on the coast. Notes the stories are mailed to partner schools in the United States who write about what happens to these characters after becoming slaves. Notes students' intense interest and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Bringing the Story Back into History: Teaching Social Studies to Children with Learning Disabilities
Dull, Laura J.; van Garderen, Delinda – Preventing School Failure, 2005
Many at-risk students and students with learning problems struggle to understand social studies textbooks. Textbooks have been described as being "inconsiderate" of their readers (B. B. Armbruster & T. H. Anderson, 1988) because their authors have relied on an expository, rather than narrative, approach. In this article, the authors…
Descriptors: History, Social Studies, Learning Disabilities, Children
