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Hicks, David – Trentham Books, 2014
This book explores three global issues--climate change, peak oil and the limits to growth. It sets out the facts about the inevitable yet still largely unknown changes, and examines the feelings and attitudes the coming changes engender. It offers teachers ways to engage with vital but too often avoided issues, and to share success stories and…
Descriptors: Climate, Fuels, Environmental Education, Sustainability
Johnson, Aaron; Hicks, David; Ogle, Todd; Bowman, Doug; Cline, David; Ragan, Eric – Social Education, 2017
In 2014, Virginia's Montgomery County school division adopted a place-based social studies curriculum titled "My Place in Time and Space" for fifth grade students. The curriculum promotes an awareness of the impact of place on local knowledge and disciplinary understandings in southwest Virginia, while also connecting local history to…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Elementary Education, Grade 5, Computer Simulation
Hicks, David; Johnson, Aaron; Lisanti, Melissa; van Hover, Stephanie; McPherson, Kelly; Zukerwar, Sharon – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2016
In this article, the authors introduce a series of interconnected, inquiry-based activities from a fifth grade social studies curriculum, "My Place in Time and Space," which was developed in part through a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Regional Grant Program--Eastern Region. These activities are designed to…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Inquiry, Active Learning, Learning Activities
Parkes, Kelly A.; Dredger, Katie S.; Hicks, David – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2013
This instructional article outlines the qualities of effective ePortfolios and how reflection and student growth is measured. Student exemplars and assessment rubrics show how, despite changing tools and evolving standards, sustained collaboration and student coaching yields reflective practitioners in content areas and in technological knowledge.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Electronic Publishing, Summative Evaluation
van Hover, Stephanie; Hicks, David; Cotton, Stephen – History Teacher, 2012
While the field of history education elucidates a clear and ambitious vision of high-quality history instruction, a current challenge for history educators (including teacher educators, curriculum specialists, and school-based history and social science supervisors) becomes how to illuminate and capture this when observing classrooms to research…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Observation, Feedback (Response), Teacher Educators
Crawford, B. Scott; Hicks, David; Doherty, Nicole – Social Education, 2009
If the mission of the social studies is to educate global citizens for the twenty-first century, then students must learn how to engage in the type of systematic and sophisticated literacy work that recognizes the power of images as well as texts. In an era of high stakes testing, it is not easy for teachers to find time to locate appropriate art,…
Descriptors: Artists, Cooperation, Museums, Art
Hicks, David; Holden, Cathie – Environmental Education Research, 2007
This paper looks at the growing interest in exploring alternative futures and in particular at the need for a futures perspective in education. It looks at the ways in which educators are responding to this and at the concerns expressed by young people themselves about the future. The value of a futures perspective in work exploring issues of…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Student Attitudes
Hicks, David – Bulletin of Environmental Education, 1987
Describes the World Studies 8-13 Project, a national curriculum program developed through a cooperative effort in Great Britain. Discusses the purposes of the project, which includes the teaching of world issues to younger children. Outlines the major topics covered by the materials. (TW)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hicks, David – Westminster Studies in Education, 1990
Describes a national, world-studies, curriculum project in the United Kingdom, with the main goal of promoting world studies in secondary schools. Defines intended outcomes and describes the pilot schools. Traces the project development from 1980-89, through publications, expansion, evaluations, and international links. Lists projects main…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Hicks, David – Westminster Studies in Education, 1991
Reports the nine-year history of the Centre for Peace Studies. Identifies the aims of the project. Discusses the extent of interest in, and reactions to, the center. Describes "World Studies 8-13," a curriculum program of the center that continued under the direction of the World Studies Trust after the center ceased to exist. (SG)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Fisher, Simon; Hicks, David – Bulletin of Environmental Education, 1982
Describes the rationale for and general objectives of World Studies, a curriculum project emphasizing the teacher's role in developing instructional strategies. Includes general themes (getting on with others, learning about other people, understanding the news, the world tomorrow) and criteria for the project's inservice courses. (JN)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Hicks, David, Ed.; Slaughter, Richard, Ed. – 1997
If all education is for the future, then when and where is the future explored within education? Providing educators with information on the rich literature of the futures field and on the groundswell of future studies is the object of this collection of essays. The text does not presume that readers are familiar with the futures field. Divided…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Curriculum
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Hicks, David; Doolittle, Peter E.; Ewing, E. Thomas – Social Education, 2004
Understanding history is a challenge. In order to provide teachers with a tool that can help students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to interpret primary sources and reconcile various historical accounts, the authors developed the SCIM-C strategy. Grounded in research on teaching and learning history and building upon Riley's layers of…
Descriptors: Historians, History Instruction, Primary Sources, Teaching Methods
Hicks, David; Carroll, Jeff; Doolittle, Peter; Lee, John; Oliver, Brian – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2004
In a history class, students typically listen to the teacher lecture, read from their textbook, then take a test. Although they may sometimes be required to memorize information or read stories about historical events and people, they rarely work with other students, use original documents, write term papers, or discuss the significance of what…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Basic Skills, History Instruction, Elementary School Students
Scheer, Stephanie B.; Terry, Krista P.; Doolittle, Peter E.; Hicks, David – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2004
Distance education has become a major form of education in the United States. This surge in popularity has launched a plethora of scholarship emphasizing the distillation of those strategies which inform effective, learning experiences in the distance environment. A growing consensus among researchers recognizes the need for a holistic approach to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods
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