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Hicks, David; Holden, Cathie – Environmental Education Research, 1995
Explores two issues related to teaching toward an ecologically sustainable future: (1) recognition that teaching about global issues can lead to feelings of despair; and (2) the need to know how young people conceptualize the future in the first place. A recent study of pupils' views of the future is described. (LZ)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environment, Environmental Education, Futures (of Society)
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Hicks, David; Bord, Andy – Environmental Education Research, 2001
Reports on a pilot research project in the United Kingdom that monitored student responses to learning about global futures and found much more going on beneath the surface than meets the eye. (Contains 16 references.) (YDS)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Concept Formation, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Lindsey, James F.; Hicks, David – Calif J Educ Res, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Feedback, Instructional Materials, Problem Solving
Doolittle, Peter E.; Hicks, David – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2003
The National Council for the Social Studies has explicitly advocated technology integration into the social studies classroom to transform the teaching and learning of key social studies content and skills. While the call for technology integration into the social studies classroom is clear, the application of technology within the realm of social…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Social Studies
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
A S[t]imulating Study of Map Projections: An Exploration Integrating Mathematics and Social Studies.
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Wilkins, Jesse L. M.; Hicks, David – Mathematics Teacher, 2001
Presents a map-projection activity that combines mathematics and geography through investigating the proportion of land and water that covers the earth. Focuses on helping students become familiar with characteristics of different projections or representations of the world while estimating and graphing and encouraging them to investigate the…
Descriptors: Geography, Geometry, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hicks, David; Doolittle, Peter; Lee, John K. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2004
A limited body of research examines the extent to which social studies teachers are actually utilizing primary sources that are accessible in traditional classroom-based formats versus web-based formats. This paper initiates an exploration of this gap in the literature by reporting on the result of a survey of secondary social studies teachers,…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Studies, Primary Sources, History Instruction
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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
Lintner, Timothy, Ed.; Schweder, Windy, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
With the national push towards inclusion, more students with disabilities are being placed in general education settings. Furthermore, when placed, more students with disabilities are entering social studies classrooms than any other content area. Classroom teachers are being asked to "reach and teach" all students, often with little support.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Disabilities, Peer Teaching
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
Pitts, Timothy Wade – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In the current political climate, where many politicians in both Europe and United States have proclaimed that multi-cultural education has failed as an educational paradigm, there is a growing fear that the very idea of a democratic, multicultural society is untenable over time. In this dissertation, I explore three responses to the question of…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Cultural Education, Democracy, Citizenship Education
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
Bolick, Cheryl Mason; Hicks, David; Lee, John; Molebash, Philip; Doolittle, Peter – AACE Journal, 2004
Digital libraries are changing the way academic disciplines within universities are conceptualized. The nation's scholars are investing their careers and millions of dollars to use technology to rethink the nature of their disciplines. These advances are affecting academic research and instruction as academic disciplines restructure in response to…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Academic Libraries, Influence of Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Stephens, Robert P.; Lehr, Jane L.; Thorp, Daniel B.; Ewing, E. Thomas; Hicks, David – Social Education, 2005
Today's students are generally accustomed to seeing timelines of events, lists of names, and bulleted items, yet they lack an understanding of the complexity of historical analysis. Learning to read historical information from charts, for example, teaches students to evaluate the significance of change. Comparing related primary sources can…
Descriptors: Historians, Educational Technology, Slavery, Historical Interpretation
2002
This document contains the following papers on social studies from the SITE (Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education) 2002 conference: (1) "Technology Portfolios in Pre-Service Social Studies Teacher Education" (Marsha Alibrandi); (2) "North Carolina's Sixth Graders Go to Russia: A Global Education/Curriculum Integration Project…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education