Spatial Citizenship Education is an innovative exploration of ways to engage and promote citizenship through a deeper understanding of spatial and geographic perspectives. The authors propose that recognizing the relationship between space and citizenry enables productive and po…
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Community participation is defined as an individual’s engagement in meaningful life roles such as employment, parenting, education, recreation, interpersonal relation, religion, and healthy living (Iwanaga, Chen, et al., 2021). The ability to assume meaningful life roles and act…
This arts-based dissertation explores the stories and silences of the Winston branch of my family in order to consider how families reproduce ideologies, with the focus of this study being white supremacy and to lesser extents capitalism and patriarchy. In social studies educati…
An abundance of historical scholarship about early Whitman County pioneers exists, but very little focuses on how on the devastating impact settlers had on Indigenous communities. Documentation exists, but much of the framing of this regional history is one-sided, and part of wh…
This qualitative case study examined a teacher’s perceptions of implementing a research intervention that included the discussion of public issues and analyzed student artifacts from the intervention for ideas related to taking civic action. The research intervention was created…
This study investigated what is remembered about social studies education, how memories can be made useful in current classrooms, and how this knowledge can inform a social studies-to-be imagining future memories. Special attention was paid as well to issues of social justice an…
Bu çalışmanın amacı; 2005 yılı Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretim Programı'na göre oluşturulan 2014 yılı 5. sınıf Sosyal Bilgiler ders kitabı ile 2017 yılında yenilenen Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretim Programı'na göre oluşturulan 5. sınıf Sosyal Bilgiler ders kitaplarını, biçimsel özellikler, görs…
Bu tez çalışmasında, ulusal ve uluslararası literatürden yararlanılarak tarihsel çevre kavramı farklı boyutları ve ilişkili olduğu farklı bağlamlarla bütünlük içersinde irdelenmiş ve gerek okul dışı eğitim uygulamaları gerekse de tarih öğretiminde taşıdığı pedagojik değeri açısı…
This dissertation takes up the topic of simulations in social studies education. Though simulations are taken up widely by social studies educators, and though they are described as best practice in social studies standards documents and teacher evaluation rubrics, the term lack…
Place-based education seeks to connect students with the content by including their previous experiences and the location where they are learning in each lesson. Place-based education is applicable in any school setting and subject. Because of its versatility it has been applied…
Not every student identifies with the lessons that are being scripted by many educational institutions. Teachers need to be informed about the backgrounds of their students; therefore, culturally relevant pedagogy should be utilized when teaching elementary students in urban sch…
This qualitative case study explored the implementation of critical citizenship education in an eighth grade social studies classroom. This research was guided by Johnson and Morris’ (2010) framework for studying critical citizenship education and took place in a public charter …
In this study, I examine the integration of aesthetic education, specifically the visual arts and music, into secondary education history courses. Through aesthetic education, I argue, students can become emotionally connected to the past and can develop their historical literac…
In the age of “Make America Great Again” and “Build that wall,” there have been many voices contributing to the discussion of what it means to be American. The process for becoming a U.S. citizen provides an interesting checkpoint for exploring messages regarding Americanism. Bu…
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether social work educators are conversant with spiritual assessment tools (FICA, HOPE, FAITH, SPIRIT, and CSI-MEMO), whether these tools are taught as part of the social work curriculum, and whether religious and spiritual courses …
Research examining students’ historical reasoning has heavily relied on evidence in the form of students’ written work to make claims about students’ ability to reason historically and have argued that the document-based history essay holds the most promise for assessing student…
The problem addressed in this qualitative phenomenological study was how poverty affected educators in teaching literacy achievement in secondary high school classrooms. The purpose addressed the experiences of educators to create a model of their lived experiences. Using socioc…
Many veterans experience challenges as they reintegrate back into society following their military service. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers health and other services to veterans, but these are often male-centered. The purpose of this study was to explore the reint…
The study examined three factors in order to demonstrate and prove the effectiveness of implementing oral history in teaching social studies: teachers’ perceptions, teachers’ familiarity, and oral history’s effectiveness as a teaching approach. The goal of the study was to answe…