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Walker, Nancy T.; Goff, Maria; Serafini, Frank W. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Framed in theories of multimodality and picture books, this interpretivist research examined teachers' use of visual literacy elements during one school year as they taught language arts and social studies in their upper elementary grade classrooms. The data, which included field notes, interviews, observations, classroom artifacts, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Visual Literacy, Curriculum Implementation
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Ohn, J. D. – Social Studies, 2013
The purpose of the study was to examine if and how elementary preservice teachers' perceptions about history were changed upon their completion of a class project that engaged them in a discipline-specific inquiry as a method of teaching history. Surveys were administered to assess any changes in their perception of the history before and after…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Social Studies
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Gillespie, Amy; Graham, Steve; Kiuhara, Sharlene; Hebert, Michael – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
A random sample of language arts, social studies, science, and math high school teachers from across the United States were surveyed about their use of writing to support student learning. Four out of every five teachers reported they used writing to support student learning, applying on average 24 different writing activities across the school…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Writing (Composition), Teacher Attitudes, Science Teachers
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Uribe-Flórez, Lida J.; Araujo, Blanca; Franzak, Mark; Haynes Writer, Jeanette – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
Because the English learners' (ELs) population is growing in the United States, teacher candidates should be provided with experiences that prepare them to effectively teach and empower linguistically/culturally diverse students. Teacher candidates should be provided with opportunities to learn skills that engage ELs in mathematics. In this…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Education
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Hawe, Eleanor M.; Browne, Isabel; Siteine, Alexis; Tuck, Bryan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
This paper reports on an investigation carried out in New Zealand into experienced elementary and student teachers' beliefs about the nature and purpose of social studies education. Since its inclusion in New Zealand's curriculum, social studies has been organized around the notion of citizenship education with curricula and programmes of work…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Factor Analysis
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Waring, Scott M. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
During the past decade, there has been more than an adequate amount of research addressing issues regarding social studies methods courses. However, the apparent void is that there is no clear understanding of what pedagogical content knowledge or understanding of pedagogical approaches teacher candidates bring with them to social studies methods…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Content Analysis, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Sears, Alan – Education Canada, 2009
Revolutions of all kinds are a mainstay of social studies and history classes across Canada. While revolution as subject matter is prevalent in Canadian social studies classrooms, it is unclear the degree to which what Howard Gardner calls the "cognitive revolution" has found its way into those same classrooms. This is the revolution in…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Foreign Countries, Social Studies, History Instruction
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Monte-Sano, Chauncey; Cochran, Melissa – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2009
This study examines how two history teacher candidates, Monica and James, learned to teach historical thinking and reading in a discipline-specific teacher education program. Data include pretests and postests, interviews, observations, and university course assignments. Qualitative data analysis reveals that although both teachers excelled in the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Thinking Skills, Educational Objectives, Preservice Teacher Education
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Saye, John W.; Kohlmeier, Jada; Brush, Thomas; Mitchell, Linda; Farmer, Charles – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2009
This case study examined how mentoring experiences might encourage teachers to consider and adopt a problem-based historical inquiry (PBHI) framework for teaching. We mentored six teachers over 15 months as they planned and implemented PBHI teaching, reflected on their experiences, and then engaged in peer mentoring of other teachers. Data…
Descriptors: Mentors, Case Studies, Problem Based Learning, History Instruction
Wineburg, Sam – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
According to current NCATE standards, social studies teachers must be well versed in economics, history, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, science and technology, and the arts. In short, they must know everything. In this article, the author dismisses these standards as totally unrealistic and argues that prospective social…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Social Studies, State Standards
van 't Hooft, Mark – 2000
This study investigated whether or not students apply educational theory to practical situations when they are involved in a learning process that starts from their own educational experiences and "Gestalts," the holistic unity of knowledge, feelings, values, and meanings linked to concrete situations encountered before, and colored by…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Classroom Research, Curriculum Development, Data Analysis
Lofsnoes, Elsa – 2000
Approximately 43 percent of schools in Norway are nongraded schools. A study of teacher thinking and planning in social studies was carried out in six small, nongraded schools in rural Norway. An obligatory social studies theme in the national curriculum is "the human being in society." At each school, one teacher of students aged 11-13…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries