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Pace, Judith L. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2003
This paper examines the dynamics of authority relationships and curriculum enactment in a lower-level, college-preparatory US History class. It explains how a teacher and his students construct a relaxed order shaped by uncertain educational goals, the use of entertainment, and students' wants. Ambiguity and entertainment in the teacher's practise…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Educational Objectives, United States History, High Schools
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Perlstein, Daniel – History of Education Quarterly, 2004
This article traces back to the time when virtually no educational research or policymaking takes integration seriously, when the courts regularly declare segregated districts unitary, when the rhetoric of race-blind social justice has been abandoned by the left and appropriated by the opponents of equality. This leads students' and other…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational History, School Desegregation, Equal Education
Stiler, Gary; Allen, Lisa – Multicultural Education, 2006
The Carver Community Center in Evansville, Indiana, uses an academic enrichment program to support neighborhood students. The curriculum involves children in learning about African-American literary traditions and folk art. The Center's work is based on the premise that African-American children need to encounter the reality of history as in…
Descriptors: African Americans, United States History, Enrichment Activities, Academic Standards
Foster, Stuart J., Ed.; Crawford, Keith A., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2006
The pages of this book illustrate that as instruments of socialization and sites of ideological discourse textbooks are powerful artefacts in introducing young people to a specific historical, cultural and socioeconomic order. Crucially, exploring the social construction of school textbooks and the messages they impart provides an important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Textbook Content, Social Systems
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Gifford, Bernard R.; Valdes, Guadalupe – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
According to Frankenberg, Lee, and Orfield, segregation for black students declined substantially after the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision, "Brown v. Board of Education," reaching its lowest point 30 years later. By comparison, Latino students have experienced "steadily rising segregation since the 1960s." Unlike…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Spanish Speaking, Language Usage, Student Rights
Bakker, Don – 1995
This unit presents students with dilemmas faced by U.S. policymakers with three distinct options for U.S. policy toward Japan. Background readings provide students with information on the U.S. decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945. By exploring a spectrum of alternatives, students gain a deeper understanding of the values underlying…
Descriptors: Asian History, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Educational Objectives
Stubblefield, Harold W.; Keane, Patrick – 1994
This book offers a comprehensive history of adult education in the United States from the colonial period to the present day. Chapter 1 discusses definitions of adult education and explores formative influences. Chapters 2-3 on the colonial and post-Revolutionary periods trace an Atlantic information network, rise of a literate culture, Puritan…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Blacks, Education Work Relationship
Short, Deborah J., Ed.; And Others – 1988
This textbook for English as a Second Language (ESL) students presents 29 lessons on United States history. The lessons cover the following topics: the New World; two permanent colonies; the 13 colonies; the colonies and England; the Declaration of Independence and the Continental Congresses; Revolutionary War, 1775-1781; Articles of…
Descriptors: Civics, Civil Rights, Civil War (United States), Colonial History (United States)
Scott, John A., Ed.; Seidman, Laurence I., Ed. – Folksong in the Classroom, 1987
Celebrating the strength of the land is the goal of this volume containing songs, bibliographies, teaching ideas, book and song reviews, and indexes for free materials. The first issue containing songs about the U.S. Constitution illuminates the vision of freedom, and the struggle for it. Visualizing the spirit of the Constitution and explaining…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Class Activities, Constitutional History
Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. Statewide Clearinghouse on Law-Related Education. – 1993
This catalog lists the materials that the Utah Statewide Clearinghouse on Law-Related Education loans to teachers and anybody else interested in law-related education (LRE). The catalog provides a table of contents that guides the reader to materials on all aspects of law from the constitution to legislation against drug use and on all aspects of…
Descriptors: Athletics, Child Abuse, Citizenship Education, Constitutional Law
Chervenick, Ellen Cecelia – 1992
In order to study for citizenship tests, amnesty students need to be able to read U.S. history material, although they usually have no background knowledge for it. According to schema theory, background knowledge is important for reading comprehension. Research has shown significant improvement in the reading comprehension of intermediate level…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Chinese Americans, Classroom Research, Community Programs
Daugherty, Michael; Foehr, Regina; Haynes, Thomas; McBride, Lawrence – 1997
This paper is further subtitled "Presentations of integrated units of instruction by interdisciplinary teams of pre-service teacher education students showcasing student-developed curriculum integration ideas." The units include the following: "Get Your Kicks on Route 66" (integrating Family and Consumer Sciences, Business, and Industrial…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Education, Consumer Education, Curriculum Design
Rosenfelt, Deborah S., Ed. – 1982
The manual is designed to help secondary teachers integrate materials and perspectives concerning ethnic groups in the United States and their heritage into traditional classes in English, speech and communication studies, humanities, economics, psychology, and sociology. The manual contains three types of resource materials for implementing…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Asian Americans, Black Studies
Weiss, Helen; Weigel, Margaret – 1980
Designed for use in the intermediate grades, this interdisciplinary unit helps students examine traditional and modern roles of women. Fourteen lessons focus on women's activities in colonial America, reasons for women's discontent, the women's rights movement of the 1800's, changes in the roles of women, enfranchisement of women, women's role…
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Feminism, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hayes, Donald G.; Dockery, Linda B., Ed. – 1989
The book provides 13 model interdisciplinary teaching units for use with academically gifted students in grades four through nine. Each unit contains an introduction; objectives; introductory developmental culminating and evaluation activities; materials; and a bibliography. Topics of the teaching units include cemeteries, famous women, coastal…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Aviation Education, Creative Thinking, Creativity
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