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Kathy Swan; Alicia McCollum; Kelli Lemaster; Helena Sands; Tanya Schmidt – Social Education, 2024
Shifting to an inquiry-based practice can be challenging. How should teachers get started? How many times should teachers plan for inquiry? What do teachers do when students struggle with inquiry? How long does it take for students to buy in to the inquiry process? These kinds of questions, and the concerns that underlie them, can create an…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Social Studies, Curriculum Design, Grade 6
Kathryn E. Engebretson – Social Education, 2024
In this Research and Practice article, the author explores the scholarship on women and the social studies published in the last decade and what can be learned from it in order to move forward with teaching students about women in history, government, and the other social sciences. In an effort to compile research recommendations most relevant for…
Descriptors: Females, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, History Instruction
Chauncey Monte-Sano; Ryan E. Hughes – Social Education, 2024
Middle school social studies teachers are increasingly working on argument writing in their classrooms so that students can successfully write counterarguments that acknowledge competing perspectives about historical and social issues by the end of eighth grade. The authors' prior research indicates that eighth-grade students "can" grow…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Social Studies, Writing Instruction, Middle School Students
Beau Dickenson; Kathy Swan; Gerry Swan – Social Education, 2024
In this article, the authors share a unique and unfolding story about a program in Virginia that allows districts to opt into a series of Inquiry Design Model (IDM) performance assessments in place of the state-developed multiple-choice test. In the Rockingham County School District, this initiative was piloted in ninth-grade World Geography…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Grade 9, World Geography
Anthony Downer II; Nadia Behizadeh – Social Education, 2024
In Georgia, the recent "Protect Students First Act," or GA HB 1084, states that curricula and training programs should refrain from judging others based on race or advocate for divisive concepts such as "One race is inherently superior to another race," or that "the United States of America is fundamentally racist."…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Social Studies, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Joseph Kahne; John Rogers – Social Education, 2024
A diverse democracy brings together people whose differences include partisan leanings, life experiences, histories, religious beliefs, racial identities, and sexual orientations to address common problems and build a shared future. Social studies educators can help prepare youth to pursue this goal by advancing core commitments to respectful and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Democracy, School Role, Communities of Practice
Meghan Manfra; Lindsey Payne; David Beller; Robert Coven; Lindsey Evans; Marlin Jones; Shannon Lowry; Kasey Turcol – Social Education, 2024
The digitization of library and archive collections over the last two decades has enabled efforts to reform history education through the integration of primary sources. Currently the Library of Congress provides one of the largest digital collections of its kind. The authors' project, with support from the Library, provides social studies…
Descriptors: Learning Trajectories, Matrices, Electronic Libraries, Archives
Ryan Lewis; Kathy Swan; Ryan Crowley – Social Education, 2024
As preservice teachers navigate the emotional and physical stress that teaching demands, they face new pressures ranging from curriculum disputes to a revolving door of political and social policies that attempt to redefine social studies. As such, social studies educators and methods instructors have struggled to develop a common language and set…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Persuasive Discourse
Michael J. Berson; Ilene R. Berson; Kristen L. Franklin; Valerie N. Fawley; Perry S. Shank; Rebecca E. Dovi; Santiago Gasca; Eric D. Hochberg; Debra Bernstein – Social Education, 2024
The landscape of education is dynamically evolving with the infusion of technology into classrooms, but it is not just math or science disciplines that are getting a digital makeover. Social studies education has entered a transformative phase as well. The "Computer Science for Social Studies" project, funded by the National Science…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Active Learning, Inquiry, Social Studies
Daniel G. Krutka – Social Education, 2024
Part of media education is showing students other ways of being, knowing, and making change away from social media. Such experiences can allow youth to reflect not only on the benefits and drawbacks of social media, but how they change the flow of our lives. They are then better positioned to choose when to use, or not use social media. Educators…
Descriptors: Social Media, Misinformation, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship
Rachel Hutchins – Social Education, 2024
Children may not yet understand political issues or be engaged in politics, but identification with social groups emerges early; indeed, nearly a third of first-graders report identification with a political party. As a result, it is likely that ingroup favoritism (or preference for members of one's own political group) and outgroup derogation (or…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Parents, Grade 5, Grade 9
Tamara Nelson-Fromm; Bahare Naimipour; Tamara Shreiner; Mark Guzdial – Social Education, 2024
Data literacy, an important goal for social studies education, involves teaching students how to comprehend, analyze, interpret, evaluate, create, and argue with data and data visualizations such as timelines, maps, and graphs. Digital data visualizations support rapid inquiry and explorations that would be difficult on paper - such as adding data…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Social Studies, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Paula McAvoy; Gregory E. McAvoy; Victoria Newton; Rachel Waltz; Emily Grace – Social Education, 2024
This article discusses a partnership with two different civic education organizations to study three different student-centered discussion designs. In one study, the authors worked with the Close Up Foundation. Close Up is a non-profit that annually brings 20,000 high school and middle school students from all 50 states and U.S. territories to…
Descriptors: Civics, Student Centered Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), High School Students
Neil Shanks – Social Education, 2024
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…
Descriptors: Economics Education, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Social History
Aaron Cavazos; Jacob Pleasants – Social Education, 2024
According to the authors, we live in a society that is deeply influenced by technology, and social studies classrooms are ideal places for students to conduct inquiries into timely and relevant technological issues. In this article, the authors describe an approach that can be used across many situations to teach students to think critically about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Technological Literacy, Current Events, Prior Learning