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Fitchett, Paul G.; Hestler, Carolin; Rein, Franziska – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2023
The storming of the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021 shocked the world and challenged democratic norms. Considerations on how to teach the events of January 6th remains an open question, not just for the United States but for other democratic nations, including Germany. This comparative case study explored the similarities and differences in how US…
Descriptors: Current Events, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, History Instruction
Metro, Rosalie – Teachers College Press, 2023
Get started with an innovative approach to teaching history that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives, and meets state and national standards (grades 7-12). Now in a second edition, this popular book provides an introductory unit to help teachers build a trustful classroom climate; over 70…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Literacy
Dunn, Alyssa Hadley – Teachers College Press, 2021
What should teachers do on the days after major events, tragedies, and traumas, especially when injustice is involved? This beautifully written book features teacher narratives and youth-authored student spotlights that reveal what classrooms do and can look like in the wake of these critical moments. Dunn incisively argues for the importance of…
Descriptors: Current Events, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, History Instruction
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Antonelli-Carter, Lucia – History Teacher, 2020
In this article, the author will start with discussing what the scholarship of teaching and learning in history has to say about the role that epistemological inquiry should play in the history classroom. The author will then describe the history classroom through the lens of students' beliefs about the nature and source of historical knowledge…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
Colglazier, Will – American Educator, 2017
Against the backdrop of our country's current political climate, the author sometimes wonder if he is doing his job as a high school history teacher to the best of his ability. He doesn't see his role as simply covering what's in the textbook or helping students analyze current events. Rather, he believes it's his professional responsibility--his…
Descriptors: Current Events, History Instruction, Secondary School Curriculum, Teaching Methods
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Peterson, Barbara A. – Democracy & Education, 2019
Heggert and Flowers (2019) offer important insights into how social media provides students with important opportunities to engage in meaningful civic engagement and political activism. They argue that students are more politically active than some recent studies would have us believe because they are utilizing social media platforms, methods not…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Civil Disobedience, Activism, Citizen Participation
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2022
This document presents the proceedings of the 26th Annual Research Forum held June 30, 2022, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following ten action research papers: (1) Historical Empathy, Primary Sources, and Subjectivity in History (Camron Alten-Dunkle); (2) Cultivating Classroom Science Outdoors…
Descriptors: Action Research, History Instruction, Outdoor Education, Science Education
Loewen, James W. – Teachers College Press, 2018
James Loewen has revised "Teaching What Really Happened", the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled…
Descriptors: History Instruction, United States History, World History, Teaching Methods
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Middleton, Tracy – Social Education, 2016
Students often ask, "Why do we have to study history?" and teachers struggle with how to answer. If a history teacher's purpose is to simply teach students about historical events, then Dimension Four of the "College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework," "Communicating conclusions and taking informed action," seems…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Middle School Students
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Barrow, Elizabeth; Ford, Evelyn Alex – Social Studies, 2019
Teaching controversial issues can be challenging for any teacher, but especially so when the teacher is a cultural outsider. In this article, we provide a snapshot of one social studies educator's experiences teaching about two hotly contested elections--the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the 2017 Korean special election--to middle school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Workers, Middle School Teachers, History Instruction
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Pollack-Milgate, Howard – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2019
This article argues that vital resources for teaching the relationship of German and the global to advanced undergraduate language students can be found in a critical approach to the rich tradition of cosmopolitanism in canonical German-language texts. One especially rich vein of this tradition is the historical depiction of relationships between…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Rector-Aranda, Amy; Raider-Roth, Miriam; Glaser, Noah; Behrman, Matthew – Journal of Jewish Education, 2017
This study explores the relationship between character selection and student engagement in the Jewish Court of All Time (JCAT), an online and classroom-based role-playing simulation of a current events court case with Jewish historical roots. Analyzing students' responses to three questions posed in an out-of-character JCAT discussion forum, we…
Descriptors: Jews, Teaching Methods, Role Playing, Simulation
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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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Otremba, Eric – History Teacher, 2014
Several years ago, the author had the opportunity to instruct the early U.S. survey course for the first time. While preparing the author spent a good amount of time thinking on the relationship between academic and popular history, and subsequently testing insights within a variety of classroom lessons and activities. Since then, the author has…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, History Instruction, United States History, College Instruction
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Katz, Meredith L.; Kress, Jeffrey S. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2018
This study investigates the Jewish history engagement for middle school students "playing" in the Jewish Court of All Time (JCAT), an online simulation of a current events court case with historical roots (http://jcat.icsmich.org). Through an online platform across several schools, students research and play historical and current…
Descriptors: Jews, History, Middle School Students, Computer Simulation
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