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Sung Ryung Lyu; Kara Roop Miheretu – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
In this artistic essay using (re)photography, we analyse two interactions in a Washington DC, classroom that features a play-based approach to child development. The pioneers of early childhood education helped frame play as a method of learning. However, the racial memory of a place continuously disturbs this pioneering conceptualisation of the…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Local History, Race
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Fabian Grütter – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
This article analyzes the development, commercialization and demise of the Smaky school computer in French-speaking, Western Switzerland between 1973 and 1997. By examining archival material, I consider the connections between this locally assembled and used school computer, and the globally embedded economic developments during the period of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Historical Interpretation, Computers
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Rebecca G. W. Mueller – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2024
The disappointing results of the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Civics and U.S. History have further fueled the call for consistent, high-quality social studies instruction. The response by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) highlighted the imperative for early grades, claiming "the lack of a solid…
Descriptors: Local History, Social Studies, Relevance (Education), United States History
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Lynn Stallings; Aaron D. Cobb – Honors in Practice, 2024
Citizenship and related values are common elements in the missions of honors programs. Our goal was to design a junior honors seminar with an intentional focus on developing citizenship, civic identity, and civic virtues through engagement with the challenging history of our city, Montgomery, Alabama. The course employed four evidence-based…
Descriptors: Civics, Values Education, Civil Rights, Honors Curriculum
Katrina Thorpe; Cathie Burgess; Suzanne Egan; Valerie Harwood – Springer, 2025
This book showcases the transformative impact of Aboriginal community-based educators teaching local histories and cultures to preservice teachers. It details the 'Learning from Country in the City' teaching and research project, which follows preservice teachers who participated in immersive 'Learning from Country' experiences in undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Place Based Education
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Lee Ann Potter; Robin Pike – Music Educators Journal, 2023
Historic newspapers contain a treasure trove of information about past student musicians, band and choir directors, performance venues, programs, performances, community engagement, and more. Examples, illustrating local news coverage of student activities are available - with countless other examples from across the United States - from…
Descriptors: Music Education, Newspapers, Local History, Media Adaptation
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Alexander, David Ross – History Teacher, 2023
It was a quest that began over three decades ago when the author began teaching at the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute (OSCVI) in 1984. The school had a long, storied history dating back to 1856 when it first opened its doors to students from Owen Sound and the surrounding area. As a teacher of a survey course in Canadian history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, War, Death
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Georgina Tuari Stewart; Nesta Devine – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
One of the longer-term effects of poststructuralism and its principles, in particular deconstruction, has been to direct fresh attention to reading as an ethical practice. A re-focus on the ethical responsibility of the reader is part of a large, historic process of moving beyond 'structuralism' -- a name for the formerly-dominant paradigm of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading, Reading Attitudes, Pacific Islanders
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La Faver, Leah S. – American Educational History Journal, 2023
This article examines the history of youth educational programming at a Kansas City nonprofit called El Centro, Inc. Youth educational programming has been a focal point of El Centro's programming throughout its history. It is a part of a larger historical research study that investigated the forty-seven-year history of the organization. The…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Youth Programs, Migrants, Migrant Education
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Bates, Neil; Bowry, Robert – Teaching History, 2021
Neil Bates and Robert Bowry have chosen to tackle the issue of curriculum coherence by including local history, both as starting point for new students joining the school in Year 7 and as a golden thread running throughout their Key Stage 3 curriculum. In this article they explain the rationale for their plans, focusing not only on the powerful…
Descriptors: Local History, History Instruction, Curriculum Development, Grade 6
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Wilkins, Catherine – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2022
As storms become more intense and sea levels rise, coastal cultural institutions are seeking ways to protect and preserve their collections within the challenging context of limited budgets and human resources. These institutions are not alone in their consideration of climate change risk; coastal colleges and universities, which are also…
Descriptors: Local History, Service Learning, Climate, Change
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Martell, Christopher C.; Stevens, Kaylene M. – Social Education, 2022
NCSS's framework for social studies education, "The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards," is centered on the concept of inquiry. As social studies teachers have worked to incorporate historical inquiry, many have understandably emphasized the teaching of historical thinking and democratic…
Descriptors: Activism, History Instruction, Social Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
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McClure, Donald R.; Marino, Michael P. – Social Studies, 2020
This article discusses how the history of sports can serve as way to understand abstract concepts associated with local history and social studies education. An introductory discussion outlines how sports can engage and interest students, focusing especially on ideas related to history thinking (such as change and continuity). A case study using…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Athletics, Team Sports, Social Studies
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Jeffery D. Nokes; Gina P. Nokes – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2023
The authors provide the reader an opportunity to see how second-grade children can use a twelfth-century painting as historical evidence to identify transportation modes, economic activities, and cultural features of Bianjing, an ancient Chinese city. They compare Bianjing with their community using modern mapping technology. Through this…
Descriptors: History, Modern History, Citizen Participation, Learner Engagement
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Bocko, Amy; Swierenga, Marianne – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2022
Lack of funding, equipment, and expertise tops the list of reasons standing in the way of many smaller cultural heritage organizations digitizing their archival collections. Expanding on existing relationships with regional public libraries and museums, a pilot project was developed to address these reasons, partnering a university library's…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Academic Libraries, Archives, Electronic Libraries
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