{"title":"“Come as you are. We are a family.”: Examining Hip Hop, belonging, and civicness in social studies","authors":"Delandrea Hall","doi":"10.1080/00933104.2022.2164233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2164233","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Hip Hop is a cultural phenomenon deeply rooted in the collective knowledge and resistance of Black and Latina/o(x) youth, who are often silenced or missing from the traditional social studies curriculum. Even as the culture’s presence has spread within schools, the social studies has yet to engage with the civic identities and critical understandings of teachers and students who participate in Hip Hop culture. This critical qualitative study utilizes the politics of recognition and belonging as lenses to examine how the use of Hip Hop culture by four Black and Latina/o(x) teachers disrupts dominant notions of citizenship. These teachers’ critical Hip Hop pedagogical practices revealed a critical civicness that worked to trouble the social studies curriculum by making visible and resonant the civic identity, agency, and membership of systemically marginalized communities. Their work demonstrates how Hip Hop culture can be used to foster more civically inclusive and engaging spaces, as well as the importance of civic recognition and belonging in social studies classrooms.","PeriodicalId":46808,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Research in Social Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"343 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43255729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why teachers address unplanned controversial issues in the classroom","authors":"Charlot Cassar, I. Oosterheert, P. Meijer","doi":"10.1080/00933104.2022.2163948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2163948","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines teachers’ justifications for addressing unplanned controversial issues in the classroom. It builds on the premise that controversial issues arise unexpectedly in the classroom context and that some teachers actively choose to address such issues rather than avoid them. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with teachers from different school contexts in Europe, we found that the justifications need to be understood within a temporal framework characterized by the immediacy of the situation, encompassing the teachers’ past experiences and a desired future, unfolding in a specific context in which emotions play a significant role. The justifications are, at the same time, intricately embedded in teachers’ personal and professional beliefs and their task perception. Participants’ justifications were also guided by their moral convictions so that their actions may be understood as morally motivated responses to what they perceive to be unjust. The results suggest that the extent to which teachers’ personal and professional beliefs are aligned and anchored to a justice and equity framework, and what teachers understand by justice and equity, has implications in the classroom. The study proposes a model that can support teachers to reflect on their pedagogical decision-making when addressing unplanned controversial issues in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":46808,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Research in Social Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"233 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47895901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Because the United States is a great melting pot”: How students make sense of topics in world history","authors":"Geena Kim","doi":"10.1080/00933104.2022.2162466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2162466","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study is an exploration of how U.S. middle school students interacted with different topics in world history, and how their specific understandings of topics were connected to both sociocultural and instructional contexts. I observed two world history classrooms in a Midwestern Catholic school for 10 months and conducted task-based group interviews on 6 topics with 66 students. Findings indicate that students interacted differently with different topics, and their understandings of the given topics aligned with prior conceptions, situated in their sociocultural contexts, and teacher instruction in a complicated process. At times, the teachers’ instruction accommodated students’ prior conceptions, strengthening their misunderstandings. Certain instructional strategies also evoked students’ awareness of their current contextual values, such as democracy, human rights, and nonviolence, hindering them from rationally understanding different contexts in history. There were times, however, when the teachers’ intentional instruction overshadowed prevailing discourses, allowing students to successfully construct new understandings. From these findings, I argue that to be prepared for the world of their future, U.S. students need to go beyond the parameters of their sociocultural contexts and develop a comprehensive understanding, both nationally and globally, of the world.","PeriodicalId":46808,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Research in Social Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"372 - 407"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45736651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geography education professionals’ understanding of global citizenship: Insights for a more just geography curriculum","authors":"Gapcheol Kim","doi":"10.1080/00933104.2022.2159595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2159595","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aims to articulate how the language of the geography curriculum privileges modernist discourses of global citizenship at the expense of others. Drawing on the work of two critical scholars, empirical data from South Korea reveals how geography education professionals (GEPs) engaged closely with the (re)production of geographical knowledge that perpetuates totalizing and non-inclusive discourses about the world. To achieve a more just geography curriculum, this study suggests that GEPs engage with a contextualized, empirical understanding of students’ engagement with knowledge concerning global others and discuss the politics and ethics of curriculum knowledge, in addition to the responsibilities involved in “writing the world.”","PeriodicalId":46808,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Research in Social Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"438 - 463"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42498116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Camila Jara Ibarra, Macarena Sánchez Bachmann, Cristián Cox, Daniel Miranda
{"title":"The meaning of citizenship: Identifying the beliefs of teachers responsible for citizenship education in Chile","authors":"Camila Jara Ibarra, Macarena Sánchez Bachmann, Cristián Cox, Daniel Miranda","doi":"10.1080/00933104.2022.2150590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2150590","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on evidence from a 2019 survey of a sample of Chilean secondary education teachers responsible for citizenship education, this article examines their beliefs regarding citizenship and how these beliefs relate to their justifications of both legal and illegal protest actions in a societal context of wide socio-political crisis and mobilization. Using exploratory factor analysis, two types of citizenship are identified as structuring the beliefs of teachers: duty-based citizenship, related to what the literature conceives of as a minimalist or personally responsible-type of citizen, and activism-based citizenship, or the citizen type defined in the literature as justice-oriented. Then, exploring bivariate correlations with teachers’ justification of different protest actions, we found that duty-based citizenship beliefs are related to a pattern in which protest (legal or illegal) is considered less justifiable, whereas activism-based beliefs correlate positively with a greater justification of both legal and illegal (blockades of streets and strikes) protest actions. We examine these findings, distinguishing between teachers’ beliefs and justifications as educators and as citizens, arguing that the context of socio-political crisis and mobilization is a key factor for interpreting the tensions and dilemmas of teaching citizenship in Chile.","PeriodicalId":46808,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Research in Social Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"464 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43359194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Truth or beauty? Social studies teachers’ beliefs about the instructional purposes of data visualizations","authors":"J. Myers","doi":"10.1080/00933104.2022.2144569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2144569","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To prepare their students to navigate online information about current issues, teachers must be able to critically read a range of diverse and complex data visualizations. This study presents findings from task-based interviews with 25 social studies teachers on their instructional beliefs about the use of diverse data visualization types. In the interviews, teachers ranked two sets of data visualizations for their usefulness in teaching. One set was drawn from textbooks and the other from online media in order to highlight the challenges of visual complexity. The teachers’ rationales for their choices showed that they primarily think of data visualizations as unproblematic and discrete information instead of as sources of evidence that need to be critically evaluated. The results contribute to our understanding of teachers’ thinking about the uses of visual information and suggest implications for preparing teachers to assist students to critically evaluate online visual information.","PeriodicalId":46808,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Research in Social Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"296 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47497239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviewer acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00933104.2022.2139974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2139974","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Theory & Research in Social Education (Vol. 50, No. 4, 2022)","PeriodicalId":46808,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Research in Social Education","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding and addressing gender stereotypes with elementary children: The promise of an integrated approach","authors":"A. Whitford","doi":"10.1080/00933104.2022.2140091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2140091","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates the potential of integrating social studies instruction with critical literacy practices to challenge and/or expand elementary students’ perceptions of gender. Gender stereotypes develop early in childhood and are often reinforced throughout elementary education. Thus, this study examines the use of a framework for social studies pedagogy focused on gender equity and social justice. Using qualitative, interview-based methods, this study examines how elementary students think about gender roles and norms both before and after engaging in an integrated social studies and critical literacy unit intended to challenge stereotypical portrayals of gender. Findings indicate that supplementing social studies education with critical literacy practices has promise in guiding students to critically analyze their own thinking about gender and begin dismantling gender-based stereotypes.","PeriodicalId":46808,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Research in Social Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"264 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46720437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Klijnstra, G. Stoel, Gerard J. F. Ruijs, G. Savenije, Carla A. M. van Boxtel
{"title":"Toward a framework for assessing the quality of students’ social scientific reasoning","authors":"Thomas Klijnstra, G. Stoel, Gerard J. F. Ruijs, G. Savenije, Carla A. M. van Boxtel","doi":"10.1080/00933104.2022.2132894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2132894","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aims to describe components and levels of upper secondary social science students’ reasoning about social problems. We consulted conceptualizations of social scientific reasoning in sociology textbooks and social science education literature, analyzed student papers, and conducted focus groups with social science teachers and teacher educators to define social scientific reasoning by proficiency levels and identify common flaws in students’ reasoning. The papers were written by upper secondary social science students from eight schools in the Netherlands. We defined social scientific reasoning in terms of three components (describing, explaining, and solving problems) and five reasoning activities (causal analysis; use of social scientific concepts, models, and theories; use of evidence; use of perspectives and reflections on them; and comparing). We described these reasoning activities in three proficiency levels supported by practical examples and rubrics for students’ reasoning. These insights can inform teachers and teacher educators in monitoring students’ progression and designing teaching materials and activities that can promote students’ social scientific reasoning.","PeriodicalId":46808,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Research in Social Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"173 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45045838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bretton A. Varga, Mark E. Helmsing, C. van Kessel, Rebecca C. Christ
{"title":"Theorizing necropolitics in social studies education","authors":"Bretton A. Varga, Mark E. Helmsing, C. van Kessel, Rebecca C. Christ","doi":"10.1080/00933104.2022.2129536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2129536","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article engages with three commonly traversed social studies topics—depictions of violence and death from the French Revolution, during the Vietnam War, and regarding U.S. histories of racial segregation—through the lens of Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics (i.e., political and social machinations of power that determine who lives and who dies). In particular, this article theorizes how specific necropolitical concepts (e.g., necropower, the living dead, and slow death) can be a generative and powerful form of analysis for social studies educators and their students that exposes intersecting complexities between life, death, political alliance, and power. While this article argues that social studies curriculum is replete with undertheorized moments of death and underutilized opportunities to engage with death, this scholarship is guided by the questions: “What place is given to life, death, and the human body (in particular the wounded or slain body)? How are they inscribed in the order of power?” The overall aim of a necropolitical engagement is to foster a deeper understanding of why/how death continues to disproportionately come into being again and again for specific, targeted peoples.","PeriodicalId":46808,"journal":{"name":"Theory and Research in Social Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"47 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42004899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}