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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
Siegel-Stechler, Kelly – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2021
Open classroom climate for discussion (OCC) is consistently associated with positive civic outcomes for students, but research on the determinants of OCC primarily focuses on individual- and school-level indicators or uses qualitative or non-representative samples. This study considers how teacher instructional practices influence the presence of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Classroom Environment, Teacher Influence, Current Events
Maguth, Brad – Journal of International Social Studies, 2020
In this essay, I highlight two ways in which the coronavirus pandemic has influenced the teaching and learning of social studies. First, despite its marginalization and under-investment nationally, the crisis highlighted the significance of social studies by serving as a refuge for youth and families to navigate and better understand this…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Studies, Current Events
Hilburn, Jeremy; Buchanan, Lisa Brown; Journell, Wayne – Action in Teacher Education, 2021
There is a demographic and democratic imperative for social studies teachers to broach the issue of contemporary immigration in their classrooms. In this study, preservice social studies teachers (PSTs) viewed three documentary films that presented stories of immigration that run counter to the narrative projected by the Trump administration and…
Descriptors: Documentaries, Films, Social Studies, Course Content
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
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
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
Casey, J. Elizabeth; Pennington, Lisa K.; Gill, Puneet – Geography Teacher, 2018
It is important that preservice educators have an awareness of geography, including city, county, state, and the broader globe. Ensuring that preservice educators are aware of new technologies to promote K-12 students' knowledge of geography is important. K-12 students can benefit by gaining 21st-century skills using problem solving, critical…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Geography Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Task Analysis
Kop, Yasar – International Education Studies, 2017
Teaching of social studies has basis of education dynamism that governments maintain to raise qualified and efficient citizens. That's why; being examined programs in question has importance for the global citizen concept which comes up with globalization. Therefore, how to be raised efficient citizens who build both governments' and world's…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Global Approach
Beck, Terence A.; Parker, Walter C. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
The study of current events can take several forms, and the right current event to study as a class depends on the educational purposes, the curricular standards the authors want to address, and the resources they have available to meet them, and what the needs and abilities are of the students present in the class. In this article, they focus on…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Current Events, Teaching Methods, Democracy
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
McCorkle, William – Social Studies, 2018
In the last few years, xenophobic rhetoric and policies have sharply increased across the world and is especially apparent in the rise of far right political parties in Europe, the Brexit vote in Great Britain, and the election of Donald Trump in the United States. In these times, teachers have a responsibility to stand for values of inclusion and…
Descriptors: Stranger Reactions, Immigration, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking
Busey, Christopher L.; Russell, William B., III – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2016
This qualitative study examines the perceptions that Latino students have of middle school social studies. Twelve Latino/a middle school students provided written narratives recounting their experiences in social studies and participated in two semi-structured phenomenological interviews. Findings indicate that social studies teachers rely heavily…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Hispanic American Students, Personal Narratives
Hossain, Kazi I. – Multicultural Education, 2014
America's history books abound with stories of immigrants who contributed to the development of this country. In terms of social studies curriculum, all states require schools to teach about immigration. However, the question is how to teach this topic in a manner that will give students--elementary through high school--a better understanding of…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Immigration, Immigrants, Teaching Methods
Journell, Wayne – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
This article describes a research study on the appropriateness for social studies classrooms of "CNN Student News," a free online news program specifically aimed at middle and high school students. The author conducted a content analysis of "CNN Student News" during October 2012 and evaluated the program's content for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Internet, Technology Uses in Education, News Reporting