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Neumann, David J. – Social Studies, 2021
In the last three decades, history education has focused overwhelmingly on inquiry. In teacher education, the recent turn to "Core Practices" or "High-Leverage Practices" (HLPs) has been applied to history education. Despite the attractiveness of inquiry-oriented instruction, it is still absent from far too many history…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning, Direct Instruction
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Aponte-Martínez, Gerardo J.; Pellegrino, Anthony – Social Studies, 2017
Youth are an ever-present component of conversations about culture, interconnectedness, and its effects, especially characterized as readily consuming all that globalization has to offer them. However, opportunities to acknowledge and legitimize the civic experiences youth have and the contributions they make to society have been overlooked in our…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Youth Programs
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Vansover, Yaron – Social Studies, 2015
Teachers of history (like all teachers) have a tool kit that holds all their methods and techniques and that allows them to construct a proper history lesson. This article proposes putting a tool into this kit that is generally missing from its contents. This tool supposedly belongs to the tool kit of a different subject teacher: the teacher of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Studies, Historical Interpretation, Educational Practices
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Neumann, Richard – Social Studies, 2012
This article presents an overview of major factors contributing to the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Descriptions of teaching resources and ideas for lesson plans are provided.
Descriptors: Social Studies, Critical Theory, Economics Education, High School Students