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The Silent Schooling of Whiteness in Social Studies Content Standards
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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
Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in the Elementary Social Studies Classroom: Teaching Social Justice through the Lenses of Power and Oppression and Site-Based Experiences
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Wilkins, Julia R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This joint study in the elementary school social studies setting enacted the explicit intention of facilitating student understanding of social justice. The first study was conducted in a second grade classroom to assess how exploring historical neighborhoods in St. Louis impacted students' understandings of diversity. Student writings,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Elementary School Students, Social Studies
Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in the Elementary Social Studies Classroom: Teaching Social Justice through the Lenses of Power and Oppression and Site-Based Experiences
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Witwer, Chelsea D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This joint study in the elementary school social studies setting enacted the explicit intention of facilitating student understanding of social justice. The first study was conducted in a second grade classroom to assess how exploring historical neighborhoods in St. Louis impacted students' understandings of diversity. Student writings,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Elementary School Students, Social Studies
Breaking the Mold of Liberal Multicultural Education in Thailand through Social Studies Lessons
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Arphattananon, Thithimadee – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2020
Multicultural education aims for social justice and a democratic society in that education should eradicate structural inequality and unequal power among majority and minority groups. These critical aims of multicultural education have been toned down when it comes to practice. In many parts of the world, multicultural education is often…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Uncommon Teaching in Commonsense Times: A Case Study of a Critical Multicultural Educator and the Academic Success of Diverse Student Populations
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Camp, Emilie M.; Oesterreich, Heather A. – Multicultural Education, 2010
In an effort to explore the complexity of how teachers develop and sustain the ability to teach uncommonly in commonsense times, the authors conducted a life history case study of Rae, a fifth grade teacher at a local elementary school in the Southwest United States who has practiced and sustained uncommon teaching for four years. Combining…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Teacher Education, Biographies
Analyzing Children's Social Positioning and Struggles for Recognition in a Classroom Literacy Event
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Zacher, Jessica C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2008
In this article I use a double theoretical lens of Bourdieuian (1985, 1991) and Bakhtinian (1981, 1986) perspectives on social space and the dialogism of everyday literacy events to analyze and discuss a classroom literacy event. In this event, which takes place in a diversely populated classroom with a social justice language arts curriculum,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Literacy Education, Males, Student Diversity