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William P. Montgomery – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Increasingly, educators seek to teach and assess historical thinking. In the post-secondary environment, historical thinking skills are typically taught alongside historical fact, however there is a paucity of research on the relationship between historical thinking skills and knowledge of historical fact. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Tests, Time Factors (Learning), Thinking Skills
Jonathan Tunstall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This project investigates the relationship between joy, critical consciousness, and critical civic learning that exist in critical hip hop pedagogy. In order to discover what is revealed about young people's collective definitions of joy, critical consciousness, and civic identity/literacy, I designed a methodology called Blackout Rap…
Descriptors: Civics, Positive Attitudes, Critical Theory, Music Education
Cordell, Michael D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine how students used the elements of a historical argument to interpret how equality and opportunity affected marginalized groups in a given historical era. To do this, 150 eighth grade students wrote thirteen historical arguments, and submitted a written portfolio of their work at the end of the school year.…
Descriptors: History Instruction, United States History, Persuasive Discourse, Grade 8
Harper Benjamin Keenan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This three-article dissertation specifically examines one challenging element of teaching history to young children: the representation of historical violence and adversity, using fourth grade curriculum and instruction surrounding the topic of Spanish colonization of California as a case study. This era, known as the Spanish mission period in…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Elementary Education, Grade 4, United States History
Stoll, Michael R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The "college readiness" movement of the past decade coupled with the widespread adoption of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has generated pressure on content area teachers to develop disciplinary thinking skills while also providing more opportunities for student writing. The purpose of this three-article dissertation is to understand…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Correlation, Intellectual Disciplines
Maxlow, James Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study investigated the potential development and use of historical empathy in sixth-grade students while using the colonial-era historical education game "Mission US" and its associated learning activities. A collective case study was developed to describe and interpret students' experiences. The gathered data included the students'…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, History Instruction, Empathy
Ferris, Daniel Hunter – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The post-World War II era in the United States, which ran from 1945 to 1970, has long been divided into two distinct periods; the late 1940s and 1950s and the 1960s. Out of this separation has come a view of the late 1940s and 1950s as a time dominated by a conservative conformist culture that did little to rival pre-war norms. On the other hand,…
Descriptors: Films, Romanticism, Philosophy, Intellectual History
Anderson, Michelle R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This descriptive study investigates the ways that students in an Ancient History class make meaning of past events by relating them to their present lives and experiences. The study is grounded in theories of historical thinking, particularly focusing on the concepts of presentism and its usefulness for examining classroom teaching. The following…
Descriptors: World History, History Instruction, Middle School Students, Relevance (Education)
How Students with Emotional Disturbance Demonstrate Historical Literacy across Various Forms of Text
Ludwig, Martha L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study increases the understanding of how students with emotional disturbance (ED) demonstrate their grasp of key elements of social studies instruction. While there is considerable research in the general education literature on how students grapple with various social studies concepts and methodology, there is a void in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Emotional Disturbances, Concept Formation, Social Studies
Baker, Glenda – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the strategic uses of music in the U.S. history classroom of six expert secondary U.S. history teachers identified by their administrators as expert teachers based on the merit of national certification, exemplary student and/or administration evaluations, high achieving teacher awards, or a combination of these criteria.…
Descriptors: Music, United States History, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
Martin, Vance Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is an action research study examining the use of technology to encourage critical thinking and digital literacy in a community college history class. The students are responsible for researching course material and teaching the class. They then use a wiki to contribute to and edit an interactive, online textbook that has been…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Action Research, Democracy, Critical Thinking
Schmidt Moore, Michele – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Students are entering a workforce that demands competency in writing both for explicit communication through e-mail as well as in products in the company's day-to-day dealings. Strategies for teaching students to communicate in writing have been evaluated extensively in a face-to-face environment. Many of those successful strategies have been…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Writing Assignments, Self Efficacy, Syntax