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Frederic Krome – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding material that can excite a student's curiosity can be a key towards greater student engagement, especially among students who are taking history as a requirement, rather than from interest. The discovery that they can read or watch science…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Science Fiction
Jonathan Tunstall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This project investigates the relationship between joy, critical consciousness, and critical civic learning that exist in critical hip hop pedagogy. In order to discover what is revealed about young people's collective definitions of joy, critical consciousness, and civic identity/literacy, I designed a methodology called Blackout Rap…
Descriptors: Civics, Positive Attitudes, Critical Theory, Music Education
Van Tassel, Kristin; Jorsch, Thomas F. – Liberal Education, 2018
Faculty at Bethany College, Kansas found that when engaging with controversial topics like social justice, students needed lower-stakes spaces to think--and history and writing, together, provided these needed spaces. When taught in combination, these two subject areas prompted engagement and self-reflection, and the interdisciplinary synergy…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Writing Assignments, College Faculty
Cherland, Summer – History Teacher, 2019
History done well is culturally relevant. In part due to the shifting demographics on college campuses, and in part due to the modern cultural and political climate, history professors have enhanced their approaches to make their once-lecture-heavy survey courses more culturally relevant to their students. In this article, Summer Cherland…
Descriptors: History Instruction, United States History, Culturally Relevant Education, Story Telling
Jervis, Kathe – Schools: Studies in Education, 2023
The author--in the role of one teacher observing another--documented a spring 2021 remote introductory art history course during the COVID-19 pandemic when graduate student teaching assistants called a campus-wide strike. Forced to improvise, the professor replaced formal analysis papers and exams with an ungraded journal. Drawing from the content…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Introductory Courses
Clabough, Jeremiah; Bickford, John H. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2020
The "College, Career, and Civil Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards" guides teachers to initiate complex inquiries by sparking students' disciplinary literacy and critical analysis of rich sources. With effective scaffolding and engaging content, elementary students can explore and contextualize complex historical…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Social Studies, Primary Sources
Saladin, Christopher; Crosson, Shana – History Teacher, 2021
This article discusses the authors' experience implementing the use of the online platform Story Maps, which allows students to create digital geographic information systems (GIS) maps of past people, places, and events and combine them with text, images, and other multimedia, in three different undergraduate history courses. The authors found…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Maps, Geographic Information Systems
Hickey, Daniel; Duncan, Jody; Gaylord, Courtney; Hitchcock, Christine; Itow, Rebecca Chiyoko; Stephens, Shelby Elizabeth – Information and Learning Sciences, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is sharing out basic guidelines and examples from an extended collaboration to move educators move online while avoiding synchronous meetings. "gPortfolios" are public (to the class) pages where students write responses to carefully constructed engagement routines. Students then discuss their work with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Assignments
Wiley, Jennifer; Jaeger, Allison J.; Griffin, Thomas D. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Starting with early research on multiple source comprehension that primarily emerged from work in history, researchers have explored several types of instructional manipulations including altering the features of the inquiry task that is given (such as being asked to write a narrative or an argument); changing features of the task environment…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Task Analysis, History Instruction, Science Instruction
Monte-Sano, Chauncey; Thomson, Sarah – History Teacher, 2022
Analytical reading and writing are embedded in a disciplinary approach to history instruction and present opportunities to extend students' literacy practices. U.S. educators and researchers have come to rely on the Document-Based Question (DBQ) to assess and develop students' historical knowledge and argument writing. However, this task has been…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Persuasive Discourse
Julien, Mark; Stratton, Micheal; Clayton, Russell – Management Teaching Review, 2018
This article features an innovative and engaging assignment to help students learn about labor history events. Labor history is more than just a collection of dates, facts, and figures. Rather, it is the study of the men, women, and children who fought for a workplace that many of today's employees take for granted: paid leave, a 5-day workweek,…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Social Media, Labor Relations
Lamboley, Jean-Luc – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2017
The paper shows that Tuning Project has generated indifference more than resistance within the French academic community. It proposes an analysis of the reasons of this situation: difficulties arising from Tuning itself, the resistance of the French academic tradition, the institutional inhibitors and facilitators. The impact of Tuning on French…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Skill Development, Competence, Assignments
Reisman, Abby; Kavanagh, Sarah Schneider; Monte-Sano, Chauncey; Fogo, Brad; McGrew, Sarah C.; Cipparone, Peter; Simmons, Elizabeth – Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Both the Common Core Standards for Literacy and the College, Career, and Civic Life Framework for Social Studies State Standards underscore the importance of classroom discussion for the development of high-level literacy and subject-matter knowledge. Yet, discussion remains stubbornly absent in social studies classrooms, which tend toward rote…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Classroom Techniques, Student Participation, History Instruction
Lucey, Thomas A.; Laney, James D. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2017
In this article, we explain how the Discipline-based Art Education Model (DBAE) represents an instructional tool to disturb teacher candidates and elementary students' commonly held notions of US history, motivate research into historical events, and revise understandings of historical topics so that they begin seeing how the past has shaped the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Visual Arts, History Instruction, Assignments
Swan, Amy K.; Sleeter, Nathan M.; Schrum, Kelly – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Using an expanded version of Alexander's (2008) theory of dialogic teaching developed by RojasDrummond, Torreblanca, Pedraza, Vélez, and Guzmán (2013), this case study explored how instructors and students in a hybrid graduate course engaged in the process of dialogic teaching and learning (DTL). In particular, we examined the ways in which…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Blended Learning, Graduate Students, Inquiry