This research study is an investigation into how children in public elementary schools are educated through social studies curricula into ways of understanding themselves and their relationships to the nation-state, the land, and people with whom they share the land. The questio…
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This study examined how teaching in an International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) Individuals and Societies (I&S) classroom can influence a teacher's perceptions and understandings of global citizenship and its pedagogy. In a multiple case study, three IB MYP …
Disciplinary literacy theory has become a prominent subfield in literacy education and research, and, as a result, policy and education reform have called for teachers to expand their literacy instruction from a sole emphasis on generic reading strategies toward including studen…
This study is a re-examination of Middle English animal fables as teaching vehicles. For each fable, four governing pedagogical questions are raised and certain suggestions proposed. First, what lesson(s) does the fable teach? Does it encourage a virtue or warn against a vice? S…
This literary analysis, social action project, and high school sourcebook present the most recent developments in the newly constructed post-Zionist historiography evolving in Israel. The analysis builds upon earlier scholarship, explores new theories in the field of Zionist and…
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the relationship between Goal Accomplishment Style and Academic Achievement in Indonesian Secondary Social Science students as measured by Goal Orientation Index (GOI). It also examined: (1) the differences between high and low ach…
The chronological development of an Internet/Intranet Geographic Information System teaching module is presented from the inception of the concept through the deployment of the on-line course. In addition, the intent and philosophical considerations are depicted in a sequential …
Computers and communication technology are changing the nature of education around the world. This was a study of the implementation of an Internet-based model of global curriculum within the context of an eighth grade social studies classroom at St. Dimitri School, a private Gr…
This study explores the impact of a teacher leadership institute conducted by a university-county office of education subject matter project, the Inland Empire Consortium for International Studies, on the long term capacity of school sites to implement state driven curriculum re…
The purpose of this research was to examine representations of women in the United States’(US) history content within New York State’s (NY) suggested English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for K-2 students. Adapted from the CORE Knowledge Foundation, and downloaded nationally ov…
My thesis, Knowledge and the Production of Identity: Educational Discourse in Pakistan, is a comparative examination of the state educational system of Pakistan. Educational policies of three historical periods have been examined along with the social studies curriculum of the c…
A This dissertation analyzes the experiences of high school students participating in an on-line character-playing simulation of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (“AIC”). In AIC, high school students in classrooms around the world play the characters of leaders of nations involved in t…
This dissertation explores the power of Jewish history and social studies textbooks as agents of socialization and identity formation in the United States. It examines the shaping of American Jewish identity, communal values, and orderings of experience through an analysis of th…
This dissertation explores the terrain of educational policy and classroom practice in the subject area of history in Kazakhstan. I investigate teachers' responses to changes in the history program, governmental standards and instructions and new pedagogical initiatives teachers…
This paper presents a comparative analysis and in-depth overview of international peacebuilding methodologies used in Cyprus from 1991 to 1999 towards the development of a comprehensive interdisciplinary learning model for international peacebuilding. It also analyzes and integr…
This study explored the use of children's nonfiction trade books in social studies instruction. A split classroom of fourth and fifth grade students that applied informal education participated in this descriptive study. Three research questions guided this study to determine: (…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between high school teachers' role perception and their degree of professional commitment to the implementation of population education in Yogyakarta Province of Indonesia. The study had four objectives: to measure t…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the processes of compliance, identification, and internalization which may prompt teachers to adopt population topics within their teaching assignment. An additional purpose was to examine the degree of school implementation of popula…
This study is an analysis of Bermuda's middle school teachers of social studies and their interpretations surrounding education, multiculturalism and pedagogy. Six participating teachers were interviewed and their classroom practices observed. Using specific methods of participa…