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Amanda Walters; Sara Evers; Suzanne Shelburne; Bradley Kraft; David Hicks; Peter Doolittle – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2023
The abrupt switch to online teaching and learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused a disruption to the instructional practices professors and students had grown accustomed to prior to March 2020. After 18+ months of virtual instruction, many colleges and universities returned to face-to-face classrooms. In order to understand how…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Practices, Teacher Attitudes
Hicks, David; Doolittle, Peter E. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2008
This article reports on the findings of a study designed to assess the utility of a multimedia tutorial intended to scaffold the development of historical source analysis through the use of the SCIM strategy. Seventy-seven undergraduate students (29 males, 48 females) with a mean age of 19.4 years engaged in a 2.5-hour tutorial across three…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Tutorial Programs, Multimedia Materials
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
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
van Hover, Stephanie; Hicks, David; Stoddard, Jeremy; Lisanti, Melissa – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2010
The authors trace the development and implementation of Virginia's History and Social Science standards-based accountability system from 1995 to 2009. They frame the study within an examination of the political ideologies that influence policy realization and unpack the relationship between ideological and epistemological beliefs about the nature…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs, Social Sciences
Holden, Cathie; Hicks, David – Teaching & Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
This article begins by noting some of the global concerns that young people have today and highlights the crucial role of global education in responding to such concerns. It then considers the importance of teacher training in such matters and reports on a preliminary study relating to the initial training of teachers in England. In particular…
Descriptors: Global Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education, Student Motivation
Swan, Kathy; Hicks, David – International Journal of Social Education, 2007
This study provides a clearer portrait of the extent to which practicing history and social studies teachers, who explicitly expressed an interest in the potential of technology and advocate the use of primary sources within their teaching, are using Internet technologies to prepare students to learn to think historically and in turn participate…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Social Studies, Cognitive Mapping, Technology Integration
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
McNeill, Andrea L.; Doolittle, Peter E.; Hicks, David – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2009
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of training, modality, and redundancy on the participants' ability to apply and recall a historical inquiry strategy. An experimental research design was utilized with presentation mode as the independent variable and strategy application and strategy recall as the dependent variables. The…
Descriptors: Research Design, Multimedia Instruction, History, Inquiry
Hicks, David – International Journal of Social Education, 2005
Currently, no research exists that teases apart and compares how pre-service teachers within different national educational settings begin to reorganize, reconstruct and transform their own experiences, knowledge and perspectives on history and history teaching as they negotiate the process of learning to teach history. This comparative case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Case Studies, History Instruction
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 – British Journal of Educational Studies, 1974
Focused on the development and functions of the National Advisory Council on the Training and Supply of Teachers, including the formulation of national policy. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational History, Educational Policy, Higher Education
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 – Education 3-13, 1981
Provides British elementary and middle grade teachers with guidelines for teaching about minorities, as well as for judging and taking action on bias in school books. (Editor/SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Ethnic Studies, Guidelines, Multicultural Education
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Hicks, David – Educational Review, 2003
Discusses developments in global education and its core elements or dimensions (issues, spatial, temporal, process). Outlines a global education curriculum in terms of skills, knowledge, values, and attitudes. (Contains 33 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Course Content, Definitions, Educational Principles, Foreign Countries