This paper investigates the different ways in which the Battle of Okinawa in World War II is presented in and beyond formal education, using narratives and photos in Japan's state-authorized history textbooks and at a local museum. Specifically, this study examines 15 upper secondary school textbooks issued by six publishing companies from across…

Educators of young students who want to invigorate relationships with students' families and boost student literacy can do so by cocreating culturally sustaining texts. A culturally sustaining text seeks to sustain a reader's cultures, literacies, and backgrounds. The author shares step-by-step instructions on how to make a culturally sustaining…

Background: Field school research, which begins by considering community partners as pedagogues and thus exploring their perspectives on student learning, is uncommon. Photovoice is a method for self-expression of such marginalized voices. Purpose: Describe the photovoice to photodocumentary process and present results of its evaluation.…

When children look at works of art they tell stories, share experiences, imagine, and explore. This book provides teachers with the skills, and freedom, to design rich and open-ended art experiences for young children. The author looks at the work of a variety of artists and offers guidance for using these artworks as taking-off points for…

The purpose of this manual is to show teachers a variety of creative ways to capitalize on the high interest value of photographs for communication skills. The first section of this volume contains sketches to motivate deeper study of photojournalism: "Development of Photojournalism,""Time to Remember: Matthew B. Brady,""Dates in the History of…