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Download full textKörükcü, Melek – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
Social gender is a concept built with life experiences. It distinguishes men and women through their biological differences. Social gender attributes behaviors and roles in accordance with the gender identity of the society to individuals. Social studies regard each student as a unique individual. Social studies students should be sensitive to…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences, Sex Fairness
Direct linkPerotta, Katherine – American Educational History Journal, 2017
December 1, 2015, marked the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus in 1955. This incident sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the mid-20th century civil rights movement. A century before Parks' act of resistance, African American schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings was…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, African American History, Activism, Influences
Langran, Elizabeth; Alibrandi, Marsha – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2019
Two teacher educators collaborated with teachers, media designers, and evaluators to utilize a video, an interactive website, and accompanying curriculum to engage middle school students in historical thinking and learning of history content. The resulting multiplatform project, based on a young Frederick Douglass' life, was piloted in three…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, History Instruction, Social Studies, Thinking Skills
Er, Harun – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The aim of this study is to evaluate the opinions of social studies teacher candidates on use of biography in science, technology and social change course given in the undergraduate program of social studies education. In this regard, convergent parallel design as a mixed research pattern was used to make use of both qualitative and quantitative…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Biographies, Social Studies, Science Education
Salinas, Cinthia; Castro, Antonio J. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2010
This multiple case study traces the influence of cultural biographies on the curriculum decision making of two Latino preservice teachers who student taught in standards-based schools. These participants drew on their personal and cultural experiences to disrupt the "official" curriculum, which they believed failed to address fundamental issues of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Preservice Teachers, Biographies, Decision Making
Cornbleth, Catherine – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
While it is widely acknowledged that classroom practice is shaped by its context, the dynamics of that shaping remain elusive. This study conceptualizes the ways in which changing social conditions and national priorities enter into US curriculum practice. Initially, the focus was on the US Census 2000 results showing an increasingly diverse…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Terrorism, Biographies, English Teachers
