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Bal, Mehmet Suat; Bozkurt, Necati – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The purpose of this study was to review concept teaching for a history course, and analyze and compare the case of secondary education history curriculum and course books in Turkey in this context over the past decade. The concepts to be taught were written item-by-item in the 10th-grade (2008) history course curriculum, whereas this was not the…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, History Instruction, Secondary School Curriculum, Textbooks
Kae Yoshino – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
This article identifies the challenges of developing active citizens based on the latest revised social studies curriculum in Malawi (2015) in the context of Malawi's secondary school classrooms. By using collected data from interviews with teachers and students and classroom observation, the paper examines the extent to which social studies…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students
Bickford, John H. – History Teacher, 2021
Young children can engage in close reading, critical thinking, and historical thinking when age-appropriate texts are coupled with discipline-specific tasks. Prior knowledge is an impediment, though. Primary elementary learners simply do not have much of a historical schema. Because of primary elementary students' familiarity with Thanksgiving,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, United States History, Social Studies
Pombo, Jose M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation chronicled a multifaceted study utilizing the Historical, Philosophical, Societal and a Takeaway (HPST) Framework, an organizational tool used for document analysis. Utilizing a case study format, this research unpacked how a charter school teacher used HPST within her own ninth grade Advanced Placement World History class. As a…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Charter Schools
Goldschmidt-Gjerløw, Beate – Human Rights Education Review, 2019
Enhancing young learners' knowledge about appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviour is crucial for the protection of children's rights. This article discusses teachers' understandings of their practices and approaches to the topic of child sexual abuse in Norwegian upper secondary schools, based on phone interviews with 64 social science…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Cultural Influences, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse
Schug, Mark C.; Suiter, Mary C.; Wood, William C. – Social Education, 2015
In 1890, the United States government had no agency empowered to control the overall supply of money. Fifty years later, it had a full set of monetary institutions, including a central bank whose structure is much the same today. Further, it had enough experience to know both the promise and the pitfalls of monetary control. How did the nation's…
Descriptors: Banking, Economic Factors, United States History, Social Studies
Scott, D. Beth; Dreher, Mariam Jean – Reading Psychology, 2016
This study examined the thinking processes students engage in while constructing graphic representations of textbook content. Twenty-eight students who either used graphic representations in a routine manner during social studies instruction or learned to construct graphic representations based on the rhetorical patterns used to organize textbook…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Protocol Analysis, Correlation, Textbook Content
Seker, Mustafa; Osmanoglu, Ahmet Emin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Having an efficient and satisfactory economy education may enable an individual to actively participate in decision making process about economy-related issues. This is very important for democratic societies. This research aims to search methods and levels of teaching "economy" concepts prepared for Turkey 2005 Social Studies Program in…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Concept Teaching, Teaching Methods, Textbook Content
Shelley, Mack, Ed.; Akcay, Hakan, Ed.; Ozturk, Omer Tayfur, Ed. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
"Proceedings of International Conference on Research in Education and Science" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Research in Education and Science (ICRES) which took place on March 24-27, 2022 in Antalya, Turkey. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, to discuss theoretical and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Peripherals, Equipment
Hess, Diana; Stoddard, Jeremy – Social Studies, 2011
This article uses a curricular analysis study to examine how the events of 9/11 and their aftermath are presented to secondary students in supplemental curriculum and social studies textbooks published from 2002-2010. Shortly after 9/11, many political leaders and social studies educators advocated teaching about 9/11 and its aftermath because…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Social Studies, Textbook Content, Terrorism
Ersoy, Feride; Sahin, Taner – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
In the program of primary education in Turkey, comprehensive modifications were made by the Ministry of Education and The Chairman of the Board of Education (TTKB) in 2004. In this new Social Study and Instruction program some values like assiduity, scientificity, responsibility and respect to variety are defined as "the value given…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Studies, Foreign Countries, Values Education
Lee, Jee Young – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Republic of Korea (hereafter, Korea) has historically affirmed that the country is ethnically homogeneous and this belief is often expressed in the nation's government compiled and issued textbooks. However, this dogmatic view does not correspond to the trends of globalization with mass global migration. International organizations also urged…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Textbook Content
Ciechanowski, Kathryn – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
This article provides micro analysis of one representative incident from a larger qualitative study to examine how third-grade bilingual students and their teacher negotiated academic disciplinary and popular culture discourses in a social studies unit on Jamestown and Pocahontas. Informed by discourse and linguistic analyses, this study explores…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Bilingual Students, Popular Culture, Linguistics
Ediger, Marlow – College Student Journal, 2010
Basal textbooks are rather popular for social studies teachers to use in the classroom setting. There are selected reasons for this occurring. They do provide beginning and new teachers a framework for ongoing lessons and units of study. The accompanying Manual provides suggestions for learning activities for learners to pursue. Evaluation…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Textbook Evaluation
Mukhongo, Anna Nabuyaya – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the principal citizenship issues identified by scholars as significant with regard to the African experience were addressed in state-endorsed Kenyan social studies instructional materials. This study also determined whether or not the treatment of the principal citizenship issues was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Social Studies, Educational Policy