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Whitford, Alyssa – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
This study investigates the potential of integrating social studies instruction with critical literacy practices to challenge and/or expand elementary students' perceptions of gender. Gender stereotypes develop early in childhood and are often reinforced throughout elementary education. Thus, this study examines the use of a framework for social…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Elementary School Students, Social Studies, Critical Literacy
Pace, Judith L. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2019
Based on a cross-national study conducted in Northern Ireland, England, and the United States, this article expands current literature by examining 4 teacher educators' efforts to prepare preservice teachers to teach controversial issues. Teaching controversial issues, strongly advocated for decades, is both urgent and risky, especially in divided…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Cultural Differences, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teacher Education
Milligan, Andrea; Gibson, Lindsay; Peck, Carla L. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2018
This article explores the relationship between the philosophy of ethics, history education, and young people's historical ethical judgments. In the last two decades, "ethical judgments," which focus on making decisions about the ethics of historical actions, has been acknowledged as a second-order historical thinking concept in history…
Descriptors: Ethics, Decision Making, History Instruction, Thinking Skills
van Kessel, Cathryn; Crowley, Ryan M. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2017
Villainification is the process of creating single actors as the faces of systemic harm, with those hyperindividualized villains losing their ordinary characteristics. Like heroification, there is a simplified portrayal of historical actors, but villainification has particularly harmful consequences. We suggest that villainification obscures the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Ideology, Foreign Countries, Textbooks
Chin, Kevin; Barber, Carolyn E. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2010
Teachers' beliefs influence their behaviors in classrooms and their organization of classes, each of which can greatly impact student learning. This study focuses on four categories of teachers' beliefs--beliefs about subject, about learners and learning, about teaching, and about self-efficacy--and their potential to shape civic education. More…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
Gaudelli, William – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2007
Transjudicialism is a phenomenon where precedents derived beyond a particular venue, such as global, regional, and national courts, serve as legal rationale within sovereign jurisdictions. Transjudicialism is part of a broader trend towards judicial globalization where legal discourses transcend national jurisdictions and supra-national bodies…
Descriptors: Courts, Judges, Global Approach, Crime
Martin, Leisa A.; Chiodo, John J. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2007
Political events both in the United States and around the world have led to a resurgence of interest in citizenship education. With this in mind, we conducted a study in rural schools to determine the perceptions of eighth and eleventh grade students regarding citizenship. We wanted to find out what rural students believe are the attributes of a…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Rural Schools, Citizenship Education, Grade 8
Totten, Samuel; Riley, Karen L. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2005
Over the past decade and a half, states in all regions of the United States have formed Holocaust councils, advisory groups, and other agencies for the purpose of developing educational programs in response to a growing interest in the Holocaust. Some states have called upon educators and Holocaust agencies within the state to develop curricula…
Descriptors: Resource Materials, Educational Strategies, Curriculum Development, Criticism
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Shen, Jianping – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1994
Asserts that decisions regarding textbook content China are political and determined by the central government. Reports on a study of 15 elementary and secondary geography textbooks published between 1948 and 1991. Finds that the image of the United States portrayed in these books has changed dramatically. (CFR)
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Cultural Differences, Cultural Images, Cultural Traits
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Hahn, Carole L.; Tocci, Cynthia M. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1990
Administered questionnaires to 1,459 secondary social studies students in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands to examine age, gender, and country differences in adolescents' perceptions of classroom climate. Studied relationships between political attitudes and perceived classroom climate and between the use of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classroom Environment, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Cross Cultural Studies
Carter, Candice – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2004
Reviewed here are approaches to peacebuilding citizenship education in Northern Ireland and the USA, where social education has been responding to intergroup and structural violence. Strategies for peacebuilding have been developed and implemented in response to societal conflicts, government mandates, and available funding. Government support for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Democracy, Citizenship
Putman, Errol – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2004
The events of September 11, 2001, provoked an awakening of patriotic sentiment in Americans from all walks of life. Reflecting representation from the most diverse of political, social, and economic quarters, this patriotic movement included most everyone from across the spectrum, from politicians, religious leaders, and teachers on the one hand,…
Descriptors: Printed Materials, Social Studies, Patriotism, Emotional Response
Kirkwood, Toni Fuss – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2002
One pressing issue that students in the new millennium must know more about is the uneasy bilateral relationship between the United States and Japan. In this study, I examined how 33 teachers from 21 schools, who participated in the "Japan Today" Program, taught about Japan, continued teaching about Japan after a one-year commitment,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Asian Studies, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Williamson, Ian; Gonzales, Marti Hope; Avery, Patricia G.; Sullivan, John L.; Riedel, Eric; Bos, Angela – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2003
This is an exploratory study to determine whether the way in which attitudes about citizenship actions were measured would predict American students' endorsement of those actions. In a split-half design, half of the student respondents completed a questionnaire in which they rated the extent to which various citizenship actions were important; the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Student Attitudes, Values, High School Students