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Hicks, David; van Hover, Stephanie – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2014
In order to revisit Martorella's metaphor of technology as a sleeping giant this paper analyzes data collected over multiple years in order to provide a portrait of how preservice teachers make sense of and choose (if at all) to integrate digital technologies within their internship classrooms. Findings indicate that in the Commonwealth of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teaching, Student Teacher Attitudes, Technology Integration
Nespor, Jan; Hicks, David – Journal of Education Policy, 2010
Drawing on interviews with parents of children with significant disabilities, as well as administrators and special education consultants, between the early 1990s and 2008 in a mid-Atlantic US state, this paper examines the work of parental advocates as they translate special education policies to negotiate concessions for parents, bring issues…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Laws, Educational Research, Special Education
van Hover, Stephanie; Hicks, David; Sayeski, Kristin – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2012
In order to provide increasing support for students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms in high-stakes testing contexts, some schools have implemented co-teaching models. This qualitative case study explores how 1 special education teacher (Anna) and 1 general education history teacher (John) make sense of working together in an inclusive…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Museums, Human Resources, Historical Interpretation
Nespor, Jan; Hicks, David; Fall, Anna-Maria – Disability & Society, 2009
Drawing on interviews with parents of children with complex disabilities in several school systems in a US state, this paper examines how temporal units such as the school day and school year and practices organized around artifacts like clocks and calendars work as "devices of temporal distanciation" to separate children with disabilities from…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Parents, Interviews, Special Needs Students
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
Van Hover, Stephanie; Hicks, David; Irwin, William – International Journal of Social Education, 2007
In this article, the authors explore the effects of Virginia's high stakes history tests on beginning teachers' "notions of historical thinking," and briefly consider the literature on historical thinking, high-stakes testing, and beginning teachers. Data sources for this study included interviews, observations, and classroom documents…
Descriptors: Testing, High Stakes Tests, Critical Thinking, Beginning Teachers
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Hicks, David – Social Education, 2000
Presents an interview with James Loewen who wrote "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong" and "Lies Across America: What our Historic Sites and Monuments Get Wrong." Focuses on topics such as what led him to write these two books and why they are popular. (CMK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Books, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Bjerstedt, Ake, Ed. – 1992
The project group "Preparedness for Peace," working at the Department of Educational and Psychological Research, Malmo School of Education in Sweden, explores ways of helping children and young people to deal constructively with questions of peace and war. As part of its work, the project group collects viewpoints on the role of schools…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Principles