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Rowena A. Azada-Palacios – Ethics and Education, 2025
This paper is a reflective response to Tena Thau's suggestion -- in her 2024 piece 'Moral Philosophy as War Propaganda' -- that philosophy has little to teach about the war in Gaza (and, by extension, similar cases of widespread, horrific human suffering). I first reconstruct one of the arguments that Thau makes in her piece. I then show that her…
Descriptors: War, Foreign Countries, Philosophy, World Views
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Buffington, Melanie L. – Art Education, 2019
In 2015, the mass murder of nine people in a South Carolina church by a White supremacist led to greater public questioning of symbols of the Confederacy. This questioning led to action in the spring of 2017 when four large Confederate monuments were removed in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the citizens of Charlottesville, Virginia, voted to remove…
Descriptors: Art Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Art, Current Events
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Murray-Everett, Natasha C.; Coffield, Erin – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2020
Many elementary and middle school students are confronted by media messages constantly. They receive messages not only from family and friends, but from television and social media outlets. The media messages about current events are often politically biased, polarized in nature, and potentially inaccurate, especially on social media platforms.…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Media Literacy, Social Media, Deception
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Michael Arthur Soares – English Journal, 2020
Today, pedagogical stakes are high for students who experience incidents connected to their safety and privacy. Unfortunately, students live in an age when Code Red drills, or the more current Active Shooter drills, are a fact of life. In this article, the author argues that dystopian texts are not only positioned to enhance the complexity of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Language Arts, Current Events, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Fukami, Cynthia V.; Mayer, Don – Management Teaching Review, 2019
To connect course material to executive MBA student workplace experiences and current events more clearly, we created an online space for students to bring up relevant workplace experiences or to post links to articles on domestic and international developments relevant to the week's course topics and materials. The activity has brought forth…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Prosocial Behavior, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Business Administration Education
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Khan, Momina – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2019
Grade 12 students in my son's psychology class had been asked to share their deepest reactions and thoughts toward the victims of the "Charlie Hebdo" incident in Paris. "Charlie Hebdo" is a satirical magazine that had published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Students felt sympathetic toward the victims and…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Controversial Issues (Course Content), High School Seniors, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Wansink, Bjorn; Patist, Jaap; Zuiker, Itzél; Savenije, Geerte; Janssenswillen, Paul – Teaching History, 2019
Sometimes, things don't go to plan. Current events come into the classroom, especially the history classroom. How should students' responses to current affairs be dealt with there? How should students' desire to voice their opinions be handled if their opinion is unpopular. What if the student is simply wrong? How far can moral relativism be…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Teacher Response, Current Events
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O'Mahony, Carolyn – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
At this moment in history when so many of teachers feel constantly pressed for time and deluged with information, they need to rethink why they address, or do not address, current events in K-8 classrooms. Children are persistently interacting with images on screens of all sizes and shapes. Teachers need to consider how they can best use their…
Descriptors: Current Events, Social Studies, Children, Access to Information
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LeCompte, Karon; Blevins, Brooke; Ray, Brandi – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate messages in a wide variety of forms. This understanding of literacy responds to the demands of civic and cultural involvement in an increasingly global and technologically advanced world. "Like literacy, in general, media literacy includes both receptive and…
Descriptors: Current Events, Media Literacy, Critical Thinking, Communication Skills
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Alarcón, Jeannette D.; Marhatt, Pratigya; Price, Emily – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
The purpose of this lesson is to engage young students in thinking about the complexity of socio-historical symbols in the present day. After careful preparation, the authors decided to teach about the decision by the state legislature in July 2015 to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds. Presenting the…
Descriptors: Current Events, Teaching Methods, History Instruction, Decision Making
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Cargas, Sarita – Honors in Practice, 2016
In this article Sarita Cargas suggests that getting honors students used to analyzing controversies will contribute to their developing a disposition toward critical thinking. She goes on to say that the value of teaching critical-thinking skills complements the movement of many honors programs toward teaching more than just disciplinary content.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Honors Curriculum, Critical Thinking
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Andersson, Erik – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Teachers find it difficult to conduct political controversial conversations in the social science classroom and due to an increased use of social media in educational settings new challenges and possibilities are raised. The use of social media causes fundamental changes to the role of the learner who becomes a producer and consumer--a…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Media, Political Attitudes, Interpersonal Communication
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Soetoro-Ng, Maya – Educational Perspectives, 2013
Building a personal identity is a lifelong, thoughtful process that takes into account not only one's race and ethnicity, but also life experiences, relationships, and communities. The process of exploring and evolving one's identity deserves a place in the classroom. Educators can play a key role in supporting their students' in this process by…
Descriptors: Personality Development, Identification (Psychology), Educational Strategies, Classroom Techniques
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Cipparone, Peter – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2014
Students' observations about society often become the basis for class discussions in Peter Cipparone's fourth-grade classroom. As Chip Wood, an expert on child development, observed, nine-year-olds are often "struggling with the cognitive task of understanding ethical behavior at a new level." One of this author's goals…
Descriptors: Immigration, Grade 4, Student Centered Curriculum, Teaching Methods
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Fournier-Sylvester, Nicole – College Quarterly, 2013
Have you ever avoided discussing controversial issues in the classroom? Teachers report often avoiding these types of discussions due to concerns about the unpredictability of student reactions, accusations of trying to push a political agenda, and insufficient knowledge or skills to work through complex issues. Debates, however, have been shown…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, College Faculty, Debate
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