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Morais, Dominic G. – History Teacher, 2018
As a project in a History of American Sport class, the author charged students with researching individuals or issues in Trinity University athletics history in the period from 1950 to 1991. After investigating their subjects in the university's special collections and archives, examining past issues of San Antonio-area newspapers and Trinity…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Active Learning, Student Projects
Reflection on Out-of-School Education Activities from the Textbooks to the Social Studies Curriculum
Aktin, Kibar – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2020
The Social Studies course covers many opportunities for students to actively learn-by-doing and learn-by-living outside of the school and classroom environments. In this context, the present study aims to identify how the Social Studies Curriculum in Turkey (Ministry of National Education [MoNE], 2018) supports learning in environments outside of…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Textbook Content, Textbook Publication, Social Studies
Yarmakeev, Iskander E.; Pimenova, Tatiana S.; Zamaletdinova, Gulyusa R. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This paper is dedicated to the up-to-date educational problem, that is, the role of local lore in teaching EFL to University students. Although many educators admit that local lore knowledge plays a great role in the development of a well-bred and well-educated personality and meets students' needs, the problem has not been thoroughly studied.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Folk Culture
Magro, Graça; de Carvalho, Joaquim Ramos; Marcelino, Maria José – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
History learning is many times considered dull and demotivating by young students. Probably this is due because the learning process is disconnected from these students' reality and experience. One possible way to overcome this state of matters is to use technology like mobile devices with georeferencing software and local history and heritage…
Descriptors: Local History, History Instruction, Learning Processes, Technology Uses in Education
Nygren, Thomas – Education Inquiry, 2011
In this study, international recommendations for history education issued by UNESCO and the Council of Europe are compared with the construing of history in national guidelines, teachers' perceptions and the results of students' work in history in Sweden. The study shows how history education from the 1960s onwards could be critical and oriented…
Descriptors: History, International Organizations, Foreign Countries, Guidelines

Siler, Carl R. – 1994
"Muncie Remembers That Day in Dallas" is an oral history project report of a study conducted by two academic U.S. history classes of 21 students at Muncie Southside High School (Indiana) during the 1993-94 school year. The occasion of the 30th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, along with the movie "JFK,"…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Discovery Learning, Interviews, Local History

Henry, Michael – Social Studies, 1991
Discusses a survey of 56 advanced placement (AP) U.S. history teachers. Explores the scope of AP history and types of posttest activities used after Advanced Placement examinations. Concludes that public school courses developed more deeply into post-1960 events than the private schools did. Describes movies, debates, simulations, and local…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Curriculum Research