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Swan, Kathleen; Crowley, Ryan; Grant, S. G.; Lee, John; Swan, Gerry; Stivers, Callaway; Sweeney, Gates – Social Education, 2021
The "College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards" (NCSS, 2013) places inquiry at the center of good social studies teaching and learning. Instead of social studies courses that emphasize rote memorization through the use of textbooks and lecture-based instruction, the C3 Framework asks teachers to…
Descriptors: Social Studies, State Standards, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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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
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Wiersma, Ashley – Social Studies, 2008
The purpose of this study was to investigate and characterize current practice in secondary history education and its relationship to best practices. In this phenomenological study, the author examines the pedagogy of three high school history teachers and the extent to which their current methods exhibited recent thinking on best practices in…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers