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DeBiasse, Mark Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation will compare how the politics of the early American republic (1790-1800) are portrayed in educational resources and scholarly works. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate that educational materials are both incomplete and positively biased, and therefore teachers of secondary social studies should limit their use when…
Descriptors: United States History, Politics, Instructional Materials, History Instruction
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Wolfford, David – Social Education, 2013
Steven Spielberg's latest movie "Lincoln" updates Americans' national understanding of their sixteenth president and provides a partial, artful lesson on the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment that abolished slavery. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, this movie will become a defining work on President Abraham Lincoln's character and leadership…
Descriptors: Slavery, War, Video Technology, Presidents
Price, Christopher Neal – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Teachers of college-level courses on American religious history generally leave out the importance of local and regional histories when telling the story of religion in America. The study of local history provides a fertile ground for understanding broad national trends in a local context. This dissertation focuses upon a little-studied religious…
Descriptors: Local History, United States History, Religion, History Instruction
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Connolly, Paula T. – Children's Literature in Education, 2013
This article examines narrative strategies present in picturebooks about slavery that feature quilts. Against the depicted dangers of slavery, images of quilts serve to offer a sense of hope and in that way they provide a means of discussing difficult subjects with very young readers. As a central image in these texts, the quilt is variously…
Descriptors: Slavery, Childrens Literature, Handicrafts, Imagery
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Yoshii, Ryo – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American psychologists began addressing problems related to the intellectual capacity of students enrolled in public schools. This paper focuses on the role and influence of psychologists in addressing these problems, specifically the difficulty of classifying students deemed feeble-minded and…
Descriptors: United States History, Public Schools, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests
Cook, Sarah Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The current study was used to explore the lived experiences of students enrolled in a college-level course developed within an interinstitutional partnership that leveraged technology platforms, such as Twitter® and online learning management systems, and included the participation of prominent figures from the 1960s Civil Rights Era. The focus of…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Experience, Blended Learning, Social Media
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Zoll, Susan – Journal of Montessori Research, 2017
This article highlights archived documents pertaining to a 25-year experimental classroom implemented by Clara Craig, then supervisor of training at the Rhode Island Normal School. Craig is notable as she was the only participant in the first International Montessori Training Course in Rome, Italy, in 1913, to gain approval from the Rhode Island…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Educational Experiments, Educational History
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William Weber – History Teacher, 2017
This article will analyze where the Amherst Project stood within the evolution of educational thinking since the early twentieth century and then show in detail how its activities developed fromits inception in 1959 to publication of the last pamphlet in 1972. The Amherst Project began among a group of instructors from Amherst High School and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Pamphlets, History Instruction, Educational Change
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Horton, Todd A.; Clausen, Kurt – History Teacher, 2015
War is one place where the complexity of victory and defeat should be explored more deeply. Unfortunately, war--whether experienced directly as a soldier in Afghanistan or a Syrian in an Aleppo suburb, or indirectly through a news item on the Internet or American television--is a near inescapable aspect of most people's daily life. Yet unless…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, War, United States History
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Woodruff, Elizabeth A.; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Physical Educator, 2015
Transferring from elementary to secondary school can be difficult for many children, and students making this transition often suffer from anxiety and stress. One source of stress can be found in the scary stories transitioning pupils hear about their new schools, particularly those about physical education and sport. The purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, African Americans, Folk Culture
Goldstein, Dana – American Educator, 2015
This article is excerpted from Marshall Project staff writer and author, Dana Goldstein's 2014 book, "The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession." It begins by describing Goldstein's experience traveling as an education reporter in the late 2000s and the incredible amount of political scrutiny under which the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Educational History, Politics of Education, Public Schools
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Tamboukou, Maria – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
In this paper, I look into the papers of Fannia Cohn, an immigrant labour organizer, who served the Education Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) between 1918 and 1962 and became one of its few women vice-presidents. As an internationally recognized figure in the history of workers' education, Cohn left a rich…
Descriptors: Educational History, Aesthetics, Labor Education, Womens Studies
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Swan, Kathy; Lee, John; Grant, S. G. – Social Education, 2015
The Uncle Tom's Cabin inquiry illustrates the Inquiry Design Model structure as students examine Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to explore how words can affect public opinion.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Novels, Public Opinion, United States History
Smithsonian Institution, 2015
Imagine being able to access all known information about an insect species--whether it was discovered 100 years or 100 days ago--with one touch of the screen. Picture a world in which you can not only see Smithsonian objects online but also hear them and watch them in motion. Or imagine learning that Smithsonian astrophysicists discovered a new,…
Descriptors: Museums, Strategic Planning, Educational Objectives, Institutional Mission
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Brugar, Kristy A.; Roberts, Kathryn L.; Jiménez, Laura M.; Meyer, Carla K. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2018
This study explores the possibilities for learning content that might accompany the use of an historically accurate graphic novel as part of a language arts instructional unit. During a 6-day unit, 16 sixth grade students engaged in graphic novels in ways that support comprehension, both in the context of a graphic novel text set and a specific…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, History Instruction, United States History
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