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Jessica B. Schocker; Justin De Senso – Social Studies, 2024
This article explores how primary sources can be used to teach students about race and racism. Researchers co-taught a general education class on Critical Race Theory and utilized a combination of primary and secondary sources. This article includes a review of relevant literature that informed the development of this class and one major…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, General Education, Critical Race Theory, Primary Sources
Jongsun Wee; Ruth Quiroa – Social Studies, 2024
This qualitative study examined the written responses of 58 undergraduate, preservice teachers in three online children's literature courses to the graphic novel, When stars are scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed. Findings from a summative content analysis of participants' written responses showed five response themes: Connections…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Online Courses, Childrens Literature, Cartoons
Elaine Alvey – Social Studies, 2024
This paper analyzes the imaginings of sustainable futures and possibilities for action toward these imaginings articulated by social studies teachers. Participant stories about a day in the life of an imagined future largely leave intact major systems and discourses including those which have actively contributed to problems they identify…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Futures (of Society), Imagination, Climate
Sardone, Nancy B. – Social Studies, 2023
Looking at the effects of globalization from numerous perspectives: economic, spatial, cultural, and environmental, it has become abundantly clear that today's students must possess geographic knowledge and associated skills to be prepared for civic life and informed decision-making. However, the current state of geographic proficiency among U.S.…
Descriptors: State Standards, Educational Games, Geography, Elementary School Students
Bickford, John H., III; Gillespie, Michael D. – Social Studies, 2023
This study examined students' encounters with and responses to poverty-based experiential learning during an undergraduate sociology class. Students' academic readings and experiencing real-life context were channeled through reflective analysis of public policy's implications. Students' writing, which had reflective and diagnostic elements, was…
Descriptors: Poverty, Undergraduate Students, Sociology, Experiential Learning
Avci Akçali, Asli – Social Studies, 2023
It is known that oral history studies have a positive effect on students' learning, skills, attitudes, and motivations. In this direction, it has an important place in the context of student-centered constructivist practices in teaching different subjects in social studies courses. Social studies teachers should have sufficient knowledge and…
Descriptors: Oral History, Social Studies, Foreign Countries, Student Centered Learning
Akhan, Nadire Emel; Kocaaga, Gülten – Social Studies, 2022
Social studies preservice teachers will start their career with the aim of raising "good person-good citizen" for the ideal society. Believing in this important purpose and being aware of the field will contribute to the realization of the ideal society objective. Yet, it is necessary to try to raise this awareness in the most enjoyable…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Social Studies, Drama, Teaching Methods
An, Sohyun – Social Studies, 2022
In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the need to understand teaching and learning not just as cognitive but also as affective experiences that are imbued with emotional complexity. There is also an emergent body of research on how to teach difficult knowledge of war. Joining this scholarship, this article presents research…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), United States History, War, Elementary School Students
Saylor, Elizabeth; An, Sohyun; Buchanan, Lisa Brown – Social Studies, 2022
This study was designed to explore preservice elementary teacher understanding of The First Amendment and religious freedom in public schools in the Southeastern United States. Participants of the study were 160 preservice elementary teachers enrolled in the teacher preparation programs of 3 universities across 2 states located in a region…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Constitutional Law, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Matloob Haghanikar, Taraneh – Social Studies, 2021
This study reviewed incorporating a lesson about immigration in pre-service teachers' (N = 45) respective curricula. Additionally, it discussed participants' responses, their level of preparedness, and in some cases their hindrances to teaching controversial lessons. Crafting a framework to teach future teachers about complex subjects such as…
Descriptors: Immigration, Refugees, Elementary Education, Preservice Teachers
Apak Tezcan, Özlem; Ütkür, Nur – Social Studies, 2020
There are many factors that affect the perceptions of students enrolled in the classroom teaching programs of education faculties concerning the concept of social studies teaching. The most important of these factors are the instructors they observed in the faculty and their previous educational lives. In this context, this study aimed to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
Mueller Worster, Anneliese; Rohde, Leigh – Social Studies, 2020
Contextualized in the critical pedagogies of universal design for learning (UDL) and social justice education, our study aimed to equip teacher candidates (TCs) to provide students with equitable access to learning social studies content knowledge, skills, and processes as a way to equally empower all students to be civically engaged, and thus to…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Guidelines, Social Studies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Perrotta, Katherine – Social Studies, 2019
Oral history research projects are assignments that can foster student engagement and learning in undergraduate survey history courses. However, existing scholarship indicates that these assignments are seldom used in undergraduate survey courses. Since the aims of undergraduate survey history courses are to satisfy graduation requirements, foster…
Descriptors: Oral History, Research Projects, Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement
Shifflet, Rena; Hunt, Carolyn S. – Social Studies, 2019
The absence of social studies curriculum is a problem because it undermines the essential purposes of schooling: to prepare participatory, contributing members of a democratic society. In this article, we argue that integrating the literacy and social studies curricula is one meaningful way to support such civic-minded social studies instruction…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Studies, Preservice Teacher Education, Literacy Education
He, Ye; Journell, Wayne; Faircloth, Josh – Social Studies, 2018
In this article we highlight elements of culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy that prepare teachers to work with English Learners (ELs) from a variety of backgrounds. Specifically, we focus on the learning experiences and practices of one secondary social studies teacher to explore promising practices with ELs and effective teacher…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Communication, Academic Discourse
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