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Ellison, Jessica; Peterson, Megan – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2021
On a blustery day in March 2021, a line of bundled-up, masked first graders walked from school to a house on the National Register of Historic Places in their south Minneapolis neighborhood. For these 23 young learners, it wasn't just a walk. This COVID-era field trip was a culminating activity in a series of lessons, "Unearthing…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Place Based Education, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Sant, Edda – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
This study aims to refine our understanding of the potential perils and possibilities of national myths for democratic history education. Previous research studies in history education have often assumed that national myths are ideological constructs serving the interests of the privileged. This study examines national myths as empty signifiers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Democracy, Nationalism
Amanda Nasser – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study sought to understand how history teachers engage digitally native high school students in the history curriculum. There have been significant changes in the teaching of history over the past two decades, yet there is a lack of consensus as to what the purpose of history education is. Using qualitative research design and action research…
Descriptors: Role of Education, History Instruction, Civics, Social Action
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Rosemarie Hill – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2024
The National Curriculum is a document written by the Department for Education and contains the statutory requirements all teachers in maintained schools in England must follow. This research study will examine the path primary teachers in England, those who teach 5 to 11 year olds, navigate to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Nampombe Saurombe; Isabel Schellnack-Kelly – Education for Information, 2024
History helps society understand its past and its influence on the present and future. South Africa is a country with a unique history, comprising of varying accounts from the different people that make up its 'rainbow' nation. In 2018, South Africa's Department of Basic Education; announced that history would be a compulsory subject for learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Archives, History Instruction, Secondary Education
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Claire Sutherland – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
In March 2022 the United Kingdom (UK) government published "Inclusive Britain: the government's response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities." This accepts the 'bad apple' understanding of racism but is incurious as to the historical context and existing power relations shaping racist attitudes, thereby creating a tension…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, European History, History Instruction, Race
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Paula Cowan; Andrew Killen; Henry Maitles; Elysha Ramage – Intercultural Education, 2024
Unlike in England, where the Holocaust has been a compulsory part of the history curriculum for Key Stage 3 since 1991, the Holocaust is not mandatory in the Scottish curriculum. Therefore, Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust (TLH) in Scotland relies on the commitment of individual teachers and/or schools. Factors that impact TLH in Scotland…
Descriptors: Death, Jews, European History, Teaching Methods
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Jon M. Wargo; Alex Katz – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
This paper uses sensemaking theory and frame analysis to examine how a non-system actor's framing for advancing LGBT inclusion, what they called "code-switching," was taken up. Drawing on qualitative interview data generated as part of a larger mixed-methods study, this article examines the material and ideological affordances and…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Inclusion, Elementary School Teachers, State Legislation
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P. Fraile-Jurado; E. Sánchez-Rodríguez; V. Rodriguez-Galiano – Journal of Geography, 2024
This study examined how studying Geography and using personal landscape photography impact university-level Physical Geography students' ecological perspectives. A survey, employing the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP), was conducted on 77 History undergraduates at the semester's start and end. The results showed a significant shift toward more…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Photography, Ecology, Student Attitudes
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Ünal Çakiroglu; Merve Aydin; Yasemin Köroglu; Merve Ayvaz Kina – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This study examines the effectiveness of using augmented reality (AR) in gaining historical empathy skills. AR cards were used in different periods of the history lesson. A mixed design method including pre-test and post-test is used to A mixed methods research design with pre-test and post-test is used to determine the developments in empathy…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Empathy, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education
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Amanda I. Seligman; Jaclyn J. Kelly – History Teacher, 2024
This paper is based on the first two iterations of the Twitter reenactment in "History 450: The Growth of Metropolitan Milwaukee," taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) in Fall 2020 and 2021. According to the authors, they did not come up with the Twitter reenactment as a pedagogical tool on their own. This paper…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, History Instruction, Role Playing, Social Media
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Mimi Abramovitz; Laura Curran; Justin S. Harty; Jessica Toft; Stephen Monroe Tomczak – Journal of Social Work Education, 2024
History, the major storehouse of information, informs us about the important relationship between people and society and increases our understanding of basic societal values and institutional arrangements. A recent "New York Times" op-ed described "The Dangerous Decline of the Historical Profession." Likewise for historical…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, College Faculty, History Instruction
Danielle M. De'Braux – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative research examined the effect of the implementation of project-based learning and assessment on the standardized test scores of high school students. Data were collected through a quantitative approach using standardized test scores for ninth-grade students taking the end-of-course World History and Geography to 1500 A.D. (C.E.)…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Standardized Tests, High School Students
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Thorp, Robert; Persson, Anders – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
The notion of historical thinking has in recent years become popular in research on history education, particularly so in North America, the UK and Australia. The aim of this paper is to discuss the cognitive competencies related to historical thinking, as expressed by some influential Canadian researchers, as an history educational notion from…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Intellectual Disciplines, History, Teaching Methods
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Kent-Schneider, Isaiah; Kruse, Jerrid – Physics Teacher, 2020
Within physics education research (PER), inductive teaching strategies (e.g., inquiry-based teaching) have long been a goal. Yet others do not seem to be convinced that consensus exists with respect to the goals of physics education and identify three possible goals as: (1) to teach practical, factual knowledge, (2) to develop deep understandings…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Physics, Science Instruction, History Instruction
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