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Direct linkBrooks, Sarah – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2011
This qualitative case study examined the place that historical empathy, as both a subjective and an objective endeavor, occupied in one teacher's instruction and her students' response. Data--collected over five months--include 29 hours of classroom observations in an Advanced Placement European History course, instructional artifacts, and…
Descriptors: European History, Advanced Placement Programs, Rural Schools, Primary Sources
Nokes, Jeffrey D. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2010
History teachers are faced with numerous literacy-related decisions about the types of texts they use and how students are taught to learn with texts. Teachers' decisions about texts and instruction reflect their knowledge of historical inquiry processes and attitudes about the purpose of history instruction, specifically whether instruction on…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Primary Sources, Literacy, History Instruction
Osborne, Ken – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2003
This article examines the educational ideas of Fred Morrow Fling (1860-1934). A practitioner of "scientific history," Fling believed that the principal goal of history education was to teach the historical method through the analysis of primary sources. Unlike his contemporaries, who saw sources as useful for adding interest to lessons, Fling…
Descriptors: Reputation, Primary Sources, History Instruction, Evidence
Kohlmeier, Jada – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2006
This study reports the impact of consistently using a Socratic Seminar to interpret historical documents written by women on 9th grade students' historical empathy. Over the course of one semester in a year-long world history course, the class examined three documents written by women living in the complex time period being studied and discussed…
Descriptors: Grade 9, World History, History Instruction, Primary Sources
Gerwin, David – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2003
A "Motivation" eliciting the "Aim" of each lesson initiates each lesson in the orthodox "developmental lesson-plan" that has dominated classroom instruction in NYC public schools for at least the past half-century. An action-research study of 38 lesson-plans (over 5 each from 5 teachers) drawn from student-teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Lesson Plans
Friedman, Adam M. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2006
Through surveys, interviews, observations, and field notes, I examined the beliefs and practices of six high school world history teachers regarding the use of digital primary sources and the potential added value of formal training in technology as a tool for instruction. Access to equipment (namely computer projectors and school computing…
Descriptors: World History, Primary Sources, Qualitative Research, Secondary School Teachers
