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Popielarz, Kaitlin; Galliher, Aaron – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
This study analyzes the use of community-based pedagogy in a social studies methods course to encourage teacher candidates to initiate similar practices in the classroom. Through a culturally sustaining framework, community-based pedagogy encourages teacher candidates to center the assets, knowledge, and experiences of students, families, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Preservice Teachers, Social Studies, Place Based Education
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Wright-Maley, Cory – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2022
The more than 200 years of chattel slavery in Canada is an example of the country's occluded history predicated on structural racism. This study of preservice elementary teachers in a social studies methods course helps to reveal how the history of Black enslavement in Canada has been effectively erased from the national consciousness. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Slavery, History Instruction
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Jay, Lightning Peter – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
Although Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) has been a guiding framework for the development of novice teachers for decades, less attention has been paid to the PCK of teacher educators. This comparative case study analyzes the PCK of two social studies methods instructors as they teach the practice of facilitating historical discussions and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, College Faculty, Knowledge Level, Methods Courses
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Murray-Everett, Natasha C.; Demoiny, Sara B. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2022
This instrumental case study examines how elementary teacher candidates (TCs) came to understand citizenship and civic engagement after participating in a news group project during the 2020 presidential election season. TCs formed a binary understanding of civic engagement as "passive" vs. "active," viewing themselves as active…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Civics
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Lucey, Thomas A.; Henning, Mary Beth – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2021
This study examined preservice teachers' agreement with critically compassionate financial literacy standards and the financial literacy standards developed by The Council for Economic Education for Grade 4. The preservice teachers, enrolled in elementary social studies methods courses at two institutions, responded to surveys about their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Money Management, Grade 4