Social Studies Research and Practice
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Promoting historical empathy with a local history research project about the pandemic
Katherine Perrotta, Katlynn CrossWe examined how high school students demonstrated historical empathy through conducting local history place-based research to create an exhibit and companion book about the impact…
Bootstraps, redlines and wage-theft: using Monopoly to critically examine American wealth inequality
Matt DinglerScholarship on America’s K-12 economics curriculum reveals an inattention to many harmful economic realities, specifically wealth inequality. Critics of the present curriculum…
Queer representation in children’s books beyond two moms or two dads
Peter C. OlsonThis article aims to help educators provide a holistic view of the LGBTQ community by highlighting children’s books that include non-parental LGBTQ characters.
Between villainification and heroification: toward a theory of nuanced ethical judgments
Paul J. YoderThe purpose of this conceptual article is to examine the role of villainification and heroification in social studies through critically analyzing the author’s place-based…
Making the virtual historical using primary sources
Nicole C. Miller, Rebecca L. KellumThis paper seeks to demonstrate the pedagogical potential of incorporating virtual reality (VR) and primary sources in social studies education. It seeks to highlight how VR can…
Developing notions of place in an undergraduate elementary social studies methods course
Ariel Cornett, Erin PiedmontPlace-based, social studies teaching and learning has the potential to foster engaged citizens connected and committed to improving their communities. This study explored the…
“I got knocked down”: factors impacting a novice teacher’s decision making
Colleen Fitzpatrick, Adam FriedmanThis study explores how one novice teacher navigated his first-year teaching sixth-grade social studies.
“They will at least do no harm”: LGBTQ social studies teacher education
Cathy A.R. BrantThis study aims to explore the self-efficacy of social studies teacher education working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) preservice teachers, teaching…
Preservice teachers and the patriotism of the 1619 and 1776 history narratives
Benjamin R. Wellenreiter, Xiaoying Zhao, Thomas LuceyPreservice teachers (n = 39) described their definitions of patriotism and to what extent they believed statements from The 1619 Project (2019) and The 1776 Commission Report…
The power(s) of Bridge of Spies to learn about the Cold War
Alan S. Marcus, Katherine A. Griffith, Francis Gary Powers JrIn this article, we use the film Bridge of Spies – which depicts the case of U-2 spy pilot Francis Gary Powers – and relevant primary sources, particularly Powers' letters from…
Being l'Autre: French-Canadian immigrants in contemporary children's literature
Danielle E. SachdevaImmigration-themed children’s literature can be an important resource in the classroom, especially because some U.S. immigrant groups, including French-Canadians, have received…
Teaching about racial violence in a place of historical trauma
Elizabeth Yeager Washington, Travis Logan SeayThe authors describe an original unit plan that draws from local and national concerns for truthful history education about the history of racial violence in the United States…
Till: using human rights education to examine citizenship and civil rights
Sean CorriganThis practitioner article uses human rights education (HRE) to frame issues of social justice, particularly anti-Black racism, depicted in the film Till. Teachers cognizant of the…
Films as emergent educational resources in Indian upper primary social studies classrooms: a multimodal inquiry
Sanjna Sebastian Thoppil, Sanjay PandyThis study explores the relevance of film texts in Indian social studies classrooms for students at the upper primary level. It examines how different types of visual texts can…
Part of whose world? The Little Mermaid, fantasy media, and casting backlashes as racial projects for social studies classrooms
Joanna Batt, Michael Lee JosephConversations around diversity, race and science fiction and fantasy films/television have sparked in response to recent casting decisions made in the upcoming live-action The…
Trade books' historical representation of Margaret Sanger
John H. BickfordThis content analysis examines the historical representation of Margaret Sanger within trade books. From the framework of the historiography, this paper unpacks how common…
The unity productions foundation film and the C3 framework
Nada Wafa, Susan Lynn DouglassThe purpose of this paper is to engage readers with Unity Productions Foundation (UPF) films, which provide a powerful, inspirational digital tool for teachers. The organization's…
Civic education and the pedagogy of sports films
Donald R. McClure, Anne-Lise Halvorsen, Daniel J. Thomas IIIThis study explores the value of sports films for engaging youth in issues related to patriotism, justice, equity and liberty. The authors analyze how two sports films, 42 and…
Reel critical: using film to teach Indigenous studies in the elementary classroom
Kate Van Haren, Abigail StebbinsFilm has long been an instructional tool in social studies education; however, most research and methods for using film to teach social studies are situated at the secondary…
Learning about geographic mobility with film
Joshua L. Kenna, Dennis Mathew StevensonGeography is an exciting discipline involving the interrogation of place, space, and mobility. Film is too powerful and assessable tool that engages audiences. Therefore, this…
Students learning following a single self-guided tour to a history museum
Billie Eilam, Merav Yosfan, Joel Lanir, Alan J. WeckerThe authors conducted a study at a history museum with the objective of examining changes in the knowledge of students aged 12 to 14 concerning the use of primary sources.
Reclaiming Linnentown: a critical place-based approach to decolonize social studies curriculum
Shuang FuThis article aims to examine the manifestation of coloniality within social studies curricula and explore strategies for rejecting colonial paradigms through teaching praxis. The…
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