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Maribel Santiago; Tadashi Dozono – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Background: Drawing from research with 11th-grade history students, the authors illustrate how students' racial/ethnic and language experiences influence their analysis of Mexican American discrimination. Latinx students' experiences with white privilege helped them understand why 1940s Mexican Americans claimed whiteness to access better schools.…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, History Instruction, Mexican Americans
Josue Otarola – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Frameworks that connect to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in Social Studies, such as the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies States Standards, highlight the need to engage in inquiry-based instruction (NCSS, 2013). Participation in such inquiry requires students to engage in…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Literacy, Social Studies, Common Core State Standards
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Perrotta, Katherine – Social Education, 2022
On a hot July day in 1854, 24-year-old schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings, accompanied by a friend, attempted to board a horse-drawn trolley to attend Sunday church services in Lower Manhattan. The Irish conductor refused, telling Jennings, who was African American, to await a horsecar for "her people." When Jennings resisted, the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Court Litigation, United States History, African Americans
Vosburg-Bluem, Bethany, Ed.; Crocco, Margaret, Ed.; Passe, Jeff, Ed. – National Council for the Social Studies, 2022
One of the most urgent contemporary challenges is to ensure a sustainable planet for future generations. The analysis of environmental problems and the best strategies for dealing with them should be an integral component of social studies education. This e-book offers essential information and recommends exemplary methods for teaching about…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Social Problems, Barriers, Social Studies
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Pratama, Stephen – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
Some Indonesian teachers have entangled alternative versions in their teachings on the 1965 affair, a controversial vicious and political event in Indonesia, to counterbalance or even contest the communist coup narrative in the history lesson curriculum and school textbooks. Employing the sociological tools of Margaret Somers, this paper dissects…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Foreign Countries, High School Teachers
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Villena Taranilla, Rafael; Cózar-Gutiérrez, Ramón; González-Calero, José Antonio; López Cirugeda, Isabel – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
Virtual Reality is an emerging educational technology due to its potential immersive, interactive and imaginative characteristics supporting pupils in the learning process towards meaningful learning. Furthermore, the current teaching of history is generally too traditional, making the subject being perceived as pointless and boring by students.…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, History Instruction
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Katz, Meredith – Journal of Jewish Education, 2022
This study investigates ideas about the messages of the Holocaust understood by middle school students in Jewish day schools. Findings explore the conceptualizations students have of the Holocaust as a particular Jewish experience, and in what ways they apply its lessons both particularly and universally. Students in two North American Jewish day…
Descriptors: Judaism, Day Schools, Death, European History
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Conrad, Jenni – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: For educators committed to unraveling racism and colonial bias in world history courses, challenges persist--particularly with Indigenous peoples and knowledges. Typical history curriculum, standards, and instructional tools misrepresent Indigenous peoples and knowledges in damaging and inaccurate ways. In cities, where…
Descriptors: White Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Teachers, High Schools
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Stuart, Margaret – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
This article examines a particular incident in the Waikato wars, 1863-4 and its relevance to the newly mandated New Zealand History curriculum. The new curriculum will for the first time make the teaching of local history compulsory in years 1-10. I examine the wide variety of submissions about the content of this curriculum. As the Royal…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Political Attitudes, Educational History, Indigenous Populations
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ter Beek, Marlies; Opdenakker, Marie-Christine; Deunk, Marjolein I.; Strijbos, Jan-Willem; Huijgen, Tim – History Education Research Journal, 2022
The ability to apply various reading skills is an important prerequisite to comprehend expository texts commonly found in history textbooks, but it is unclear which specific skills contribute to students' historical content knowledge and historical reasoning abilities. This study used a digital learning environment (DLE) to measure and support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Content Area Reading, Reading Skills
Vavrus, Michael – Teachers College Press, 2022
This timely book examines how fascist ideology has taken hold among certain segments of American society and how this can be addressed in curriculum and instruction. Vavrus presents middle, secondary, and college educators and their students with a conceptual framework for enacting a critical multicultural pedagogy by analyzing discriminatory…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Teaching Methods, Multicultural Education, Civics
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Tara Parrello; Colby L. Valentine – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Prior research states that experiential learning can be in the form of internships, field trips, service-learning, and research projects (George et al., 2015). Field trips, specifically, can serve as a "conceptual bridge" to core curriculum and concepts (Grant et al., 1981). The practical nature of the discipline of criminal justice,…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Experiential Learning, Crime, Justice
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Chimbi, Godsend T.; Jita, Loyiso C. – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2021
This paper examines the interaction between class size and teachers' selection of teaching methods while implementing a new history curriculum in Zimbabwean secondary schools. Policy makers, parents, teachers, and students are worried about large class sizes because they are associated with higher dropout rates, less teacher-student interaction…
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational Change, Secondary School Teachers, History Instruction
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Moreau, Daniel; Smith, Jonathan – History Teacher, 2021
The authors led a workshop during a professional conference gathering French-speaking teachers of Quebec in the fall of 2018 with the aim of describing the learning approaches adopted in social studies teaching within the secondary school context. Their intent in the course of the workshop was to examine how elements associated with learning…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills
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Akhan, Osman – World Journal of Education, 2021
The purpose of this research is to determine the opinions of Turkish and Russian history teachers regarding teaching of history, and to present, on a comparative basis, the understanding of history in the two countries as well as the methods of history teaching preferred by the teachers there. The research was designed as a case study, which is…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Preferences, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers
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