Although research conducted worldwide has pinpointed the importance of the cultivation of worldviews in citizenship education, little is known of how worldviews are constructed in the civics curriculum. In this study, we adopted a comparative historical approach to examine how China's civics curriculum has interpreted the meaning of life for young…

in this article, author Neil Shanks writes about a "people's economics" approach to teaching K-graduate economics, an approach he argues should replace the more traditional and pervasive neoclassical approach. Similar to the shift from 'great white men and wars' history to social and 'bottom up' history, Shanks believes a people's…

Reform is often associated with anticipated changes aimed at altering and improving social structures. Revealing the outcomes of reform initiatives, as well as identifying key facilitators and circumstances that contributed to their success or failure, can provide a deeper understanding of this distinct social phenomenon. Social transformations…

Achieving gender equity in education is essential for national development, yet history education often reinforces gender bias. This study examines gender mainstreaming in the curriculum of Indonesian history, comparing the 2013 Curriculum and the Merdeka Curriculum through Nancy Fraser's social justice framework on redistribution, recognition,…

Problem framing is an essential yet under-explored aspect of problem-based historical inquiry. This study investigated how tenth-grade students in one AP US History class framed an ill-structured historical causal reasoning problem. Data included students' written brainstorms, students' responses to open-ended interview questions, and…

The community college system in Iowa has evolved since the state's first "junior" college was established in Mason City in 1918. Today's community colleges are nimble and highly responsive to economic fluctuations. Strong community connections foster partnerships and collaborations that create efficiencies benefiting both students and…

Our study explores how US science education has evaluated multilingual students' languages as deficits and/or assets by comparing them against normative ideals. As a raciolinguistic genealogy, the study situates current premises of language in science education (e.g., as problem versus resource) within epistemological practices shaping the field's…

This article presents a historical inquiry designed to teach fourth-grade students how to develop counternarratives that challenge prevailing, and often-simplified, accounts of the 1960 Greensboro Sit-Ins, a pivotal civil rights event. Inspired by college-level classes, an elementary social studies teacher educator and two university archivists…

Scholars have long considered the era of modern education in Nepal as inaugurated by foreign actors in the 1950s. Based on an analysis of two central publications of the relatively overlooked educator and intellectual Jaya Prithvi Bahadur Singh, this paper aims to shed new light on the educational history of the early twentieth century Himalaya.…

Growth in per pupil education spending in the United States was mostly flat until 1918, after which it increased by almost 100 percent in a brief six-year period. This is the fastest documented increase in per pupil education spending in U.S. history. Using newly digitized biennial data on 386 of the largest urban school systems in the United…

This article offers an approach to supporting elementary students' reading of two children's books about the construction of the White House through read-aloud prompts aligned with the C3 Framework. The authors present two approaches promoted by prominent educational institutions and offer a brief review of their research on children's literature…

Survey research is regularly undertaken across the fields that comprise literacy education and provide historical perspectives of topics of interest at the time. The field of college reading and study skills pedagogy and research has a rich history of surveys being undertaken since the Great Depression. This article focuses on the major and…

This study examines the restoration and transmission of the Phin Pia, a traditional Lanna musical instrument from Northern Thailand, with an emphasis on Pipatpong Srikitakornharidas. Commencing in 2001, Pipatpong implemented individualized oral teaching techniques, which subsequently progressed into systematic education, creating a Phin Pia…

2022 marked the fiftieth anniversary of John Berger's BBC television series in which he talked about how we look at art and why it matters: "The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled ... The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe ... Every image embodies a way of seeing ... Our perception of…

Advancements in digital surveillance and its extraction capacities make it increasingly difficult to ignore the role that slavery plays in the history of pedagogy. However, many scholars tend to absent slavery's character and significance in their contextualizations. Whether this absence is interpreted as an oversight or denial, it truncates our…