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Zajda, Joseph; Zajda, Rea – Education and Society, 2012
The analysis of a sample of prescribed history textbooks in the Russian Federation (RF) show there has been a visible ideological shift in interpretation and emphasis of historical narratives. It signals a pronounced exercise in forging a desirable new identity, nation-building and a positive re-affirmation of the greatness of the present Russian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Ideology, Politics of Education
Noboa, Julio – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2013
The overall objective of this investigation was to explore the views of border history teachers on a wide variety of issues that influence their instructional approaches, curricular content choices, and capacity to teach history more effectively. More specifically, the focus was on identifying factors that affect their ability to utilize…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, History Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Mariki, Belingtone Eliringia – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2014
This paper is an academic observation of an Educational Multimedia Content development-training programme funded by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Tanzania. This project focused on skills development in script writing and in radio and video programme development, aimed at transforming selected subjects from text to multimedia content. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multimedia Materials, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Capita, Laura Elena – Education 3-13, 2010
From the biographical perspective of her own career as a curriculum developer and university lecturer, the author explores how the present day curriculum for primary and lower secondary education has developed, and which values and principles have determined curriculum decisions during more than 15 years. Curriculum, with its apparatus of learning…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Textbooks, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
Cramer, Gregory J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation critically investigates how Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History textbooks portray key events in Latino/a history. The investigation is made in light of claims made by the College Board, the ACLU, scholars, and federal and state governments that the Advanced Placement program is the path to educational equity for Latino/a…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Textbooks, United States History, History Instruction
Jason-Fives, Alli – History Teacher, 2009
In this article, the author gives tribute to Gary Nash, a brilliant scholar, an award-winning professor, a prolific writer, a true humanitarian, and a revered historian. She honors him for his work with public school teachers. He has provided the educational support, encouragement, and motivation behind the importance of teaching history. Here,…
Descriptors: Historians, History Instruction, Educational Cooperation, College Faculty
Pahl, Ron H. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Teaching history should not simply be an endless recitation of irrelevant facts, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, "Breaking Away from the Textbook" offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book instead focuses on exciting classroom activities, methods for students to…
Descriptors: World History, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks
Subreenduth, Sharon – Qualitative Research in Education, 2013
This article focuses on the larger project of identifying oppressive structures (during apartheid more specifically in this instance) and how educational policy/textbooks (post-apartheid) produce transformative knowledge for decolonization. It presents Black South African teacher perceptions and desires of what/how educational policy, history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, Educational Policy, Textbooks
Yogev, Esther – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
This article seeks to shed light on the dilemma facing history education in regions beset by a protracted, and as yet unresolved ethno-political conflict. The article will examine this issue by means of a unique test case that observes a dramatic war event in Israeli textbooks. The event in question is the Six-Day War of 1967 and the study of its…
Descriptors: World History, War, History Instruction, Textbooks
Jackowicz, Stephen, Ed.; Sahin, Ismail, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
"Proceedings of International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (iHSES) which took place on April 22-25, 2021 in New York, USA-www.ihses.net. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Handheld Devices, Audio Equipment, Foreign Students
Paulson, Julia, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2011
Under various names--education and conflict, education and fragility, education and insecurity, etc.--the understanding of linkages between education and violent conflict has emerged as an important and pressing area of inquiry. Work and research by practitioners and scholars has clearly pointed to the negative potential of education to contribute…
Descriptors: Education, Learning, Conflict, Violence
Dhonau, Stephanie, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2014
The 2014 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages took place in St. Louis, Missouri with the cooperation of the Foreign Language Association of Missouri. The 2014 conference focused on ways in which foreign language teachers, "unlock" or help to open up lines of communication between their students and people who…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness
Bigelow, Bill – Rethinking Schools, 2010
Howard Zinn was a brilliant teacher, a passionate activist, and a warm and generous friend. His most influential work, "A People's History of the United States," was a gift to teachers everywhere--an eloquent anti-textbook that pointed the way to an approach to the past that was at once angry, passionate, and hopeful. Corporate textbooks…
Descriptors: United States History, Textbooks, Integrity, Activism
Robelen, Erik W. – Education Week, 2010
The Texas board of education which consists of 15-member elected body drew national attention as a bloc of staunch conservatives largely succeeded in putting its stamp on a revised set of social studies standards. The debate was marked by tussles over such matters as the separation of church and state, the representation of minority figures and…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Social Studies, Debate, Academic Standards
Misco, Thomas; Patterson, Nancy C. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2009
This article revisits and explores the promises and challenges of reverse chronology history instruction within the social studies. In response to student disinterest in social studies, changes in our educational culture that often value content knowledge exclusively, and marginalization of instructional time stemming from testing burdens, reverse…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Social Studies, History Instruction, Futures (of Society)