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Elizabeth Barrow; Kathryn Caprino – History Teacher, 2018
Our social studies classrooms are filled with students from many different backgrounds. This article aims to help middle grades (grades 6-8) social studies teachers consider how trade books that feature the global South can be paired with primary historical texts in order to help students develop perspective consciousness. Social studies educators…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Social Studies, Middle School Teachers, Grade 6
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Biniakunu, Dianzungu Dia – Journal of Reading, 1982
Reports that providing inservice training to eighth-grade teachers in Zaire resulted in the improvement of their students' ability to use a text to locate main ideas and supporting details. (AEA)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Grade 8, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High Schools
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Bajaj, Monisha – Journal of Peace Education, 2004
In 2001, a 3-month course in human rights based on critical inquiry was offered to 8th graders in a slum area of Santo Domingo. The students' attitudes, behaviors and knowledge of human rights principles were measured before and after the course. The curriculum focused on international principles and entrenched local problems such as…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Student Attitudes, Student Reaction, Child Labor