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…
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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…
History has always been tinted with a masculine point of view. The main players of History have been determined to be men in positions of power and change, typically these players are the ones that are remembered. The major events of the world have only included the identities o…
This thesis focuses on the experiences of high school history teachers discussing race within the classroom. Race has been at the forefront of the sociopolitical context of 2020, as the Black Lives Matter movement has brought attention to the racialized history of the United Sta…
The intricacies that negotiate human sexuality and sex-negativity customary in school-based sexuality education programs in the United States contribute to sex-negative notions that inform current models of sexuality education as heteronormative and cisnormative, which assumes a…
Research continues to find discussions in history classrooms to be rather short in length and simplistic in nature, despite the higher aims of historical and critical thinking. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the phenomenon of historical thinking and dialogi…
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…
The nation is embroiled within intense debate regarding the existence of monuments, markers, and online museums as vestiges of racism and White privilege. Many argue those symbols should be removed from the public square. The essential question of this research is what are socia…
Mevcut çalışma ile Türkiye Cumhuriyeti siyasi tarihinde önemli bir dönüm noktası olan 28 Şubat Süreci'nin eğitimi nasıl etkilediği, Sosyal Bilgiler Dersi Öğretim Programının 28 Şubat Süreci öncesinde nasıl olduğu ve sonrasında ne gibi değişiklikler yaşadığının ortaya konulması a…
The purpose of this action research was to evaluate the effectiveness of higher order thinking graphic organizers with class specific data, using spreadsheets as a mindtool, on the quantitative literacy (QL) skills of 11th grade students enrolled in an honors level United States…
Institutions of Higher Education invest considerable resources to provide students with leadership experiences through extracurricular activities, especially in community service and spiritual programming. The inter-relationship among these variables (socially responsible leader…
Over the past five decades, educators have been working to develop authentic Ethnic Studies courses that can be implemented in both higher education and K-12 schools. Ethnic Studies has been documented to be effective in growth in several metrics used to assess student "achievem…