The purpose of this study was to measure the attitudes of supervisors and teachers who teach social studies in Riyadh's boys' public high schools towards Saudi Arabia's teacher evaluation system. The researcher measured the teachers' and supervisors' attitudes regarding the fair…
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I conceptualized this study from a transmodern perspective, defining transmodernity as an emergent conceptual and historical space in which the discourses of modernity and those of postmodernity combine to create both problematics and possibilities. For subaltern/non-Western cul…
The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of high school social studies teachers towards using instructional technology and to investigate the effect of gender, teaching experience, academic major, and education level on their attitudes. Also it was to determine whe…
The problem of this study was to determine the perceptions of secondary social studies education graduates with respect to their teacher preparation program at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the secondary social studies teacher educatio…
The expansion of higher education in the last 24 years in Ethiopia has broadened the causes, alignments, and avenue for students to engage in student organizations and contentious actions. Despite the severity of the state's repressive tactics, university students contentious ac…
Concerned with interreligious conflict in Indonesia, this study seeks to describe and evaluate the current citizenship education that has been designed and implemented for a democratic multireligious Indonesia. The context for the study, outlined in Chapters 1 and 2, is contempo…
This thesis explores the extent to which English curriculum, teachers' literary choices, and a high demographic of Muslim students, influence the way English teachers educate for citizenship, in public and Islamic schools in Ontario. The three aspects this thesis examines are th…
Educators and scholars continue to lament United States citizens' geographic illiteracy and are calling on Congress to address the crisis. However, despite recent public attention, a lack of national commitment to teaching geography in all public school grade levels persists. Th…
In this study, conducted in the context of a Greek Cypriot high school, I examine how students understand the history of Cyprus, and how this understanding has influenced their political perspectives and their vision about the future of the island. During the last century Cyprus…
Animal bone archaeology commonly focuses on identifying patterns of animal exploitation, with a great deal of research devoted to determining an animal's economic importance to society. This study focused on the symbolic power associated with animals in ancient Near Eastern comp…
What are the goals of history education? What do we want students of history to be able to do? This project defends a normative theory of history education, that is, a theory of historical inquiry that is both adequate to actual historiographical and educational practice and tha…
The study examines Tunisian students and the role that they played in Tunisia's struggle for independence from French colonial rule. An analysis of a nationalist movement from the students' perspective, illuminates an element of society which had been neglected by scholars befor…
The dissertation begins with a review of scholarship. Most biblical scholars have seen 1 Kings 1-2 as a component part of the Succession Narrative. There is, however, little agreement concerning the exact boundaries of this narrative. Moreover, historical research into the genre…
This dissertation presents the findings of a study whose purpose was to reinvent a Community of Learners (COL) in a sixth-grade social studies classroom. A COL is a classroom environment built upon a set of instructional practices and principles that foster student discourse and…
Bu araştırmada, sosyal bilgiler dersinde uygulanan değer odaklı etkinliklerin toplumsal sorunların kavranmasına etkisini belirleyebilmek amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmada, nitel ve nicel yöntemlerin birlikte kullanıldığı karma yöntem tercih edilmiştir. Araştırmanın nicel boyutunda, önt…
“‘To Make History the Living Force’: The Professionalization of Public History, 1880- 2000” challenges how we often distinguish public history education from “traditional” history education and shows how debates about public history teaching reveal a larger and more dynamic stor…
This study concerns itself with the moral economy of history education, or a system of dissemination of values and moral sentiments within a national community through the teaching of history in schools. This system prescribes which emotions are the most appropriate to feel rega…