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Reichert, Frank; Torney-Purta, Judith; Liang, Weihong – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2020
Interactions within classrooms contribute to adolescents' democratic civic development by providing resources fostering students' political understanding. Many teachers participate in social or political groups in their communities and more broadly. These out-of-school experiences inform their classroom practices and are contextualized by national…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Teaching Methods, Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation
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Stylianou, Polyxeni; Zembylas, Michalinos – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2021
The purpose of this article is to analyze elementary school teachers' perceptions and affective experiences of an in-service training on death education taught by the first author over three years at the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute. The teacher training focused on how to teach about issues of death, loss, and grief at the elementary school. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grief, Death, Coping
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Grant, S. G. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1997
Examines the professional development opportunities that accompanied the New York State social studies draft framework to explore: (1) the range of opportunities teachers had to learn about the framework; (2) the content and instruction of these opportunities; and (3) teachers' responses to the framework and professional development opportunities.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes