{"title":"Exploring the Use of Digitally Archived Folk Music to Teach Southern United States History","authors":"Rina Bousalis","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2023.2202375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2023.2202375","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Southern United States folk music is rich in not only sound, but in voices of the past. Folk songs were created by working class individuals who described aspects of their life in connection with societal issues and events. Folk songs, now digitally archived, can serve as primary historical sources that can be used to enhance the secondary social studies U.S. history curriculum. The vast offerings of folk songs can allow students to listen, read, and analyze the lyrics to gain a deeper understanding of the U.S. South, shed the hillbilly stereotype that Southerners have been historically subjected to, understand why and how Southerners spoke out against injustices through song, and analyze the lyrics that portray the history of southern folklife. Based on the National Council for the Social Studies’ Themes of Social Studies and integrating folk songs from such online sites as the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Institute, curriculum implications are presented for students to reflect on the Southerners’ settings, perspectives of events and issues, and methods of protest. Modern technology’s preservation of folk songs that would otherwise be absent from history not only has the power to educate, but also to keep southern folk music alive.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"282 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89188188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Student Inquiry: Using Civil Rights Movement Curricula to Extend Students’ Ideas about Human Dignity and Human Rights","authors":"Brittany Watkins, Janie Hubbard","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2023.2190072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2023.2190072","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Human dignity is a complex, though essential, concept for students to master. Inserting human dignity into existing curricula provides students with more opportunities to consider the problems of vulnerable classmates and the status of human dignity and rights in the United States and around the world. Using parts of the US modern Civil Rights Movement curricula, as an example, this lesson exposes students to activities and research sources that support their critical thinking about human dignity, real-life discrimination, and human-rights violations. The article includes (a) an inquiry-based learning framework borrowed from the College, Career, and Civic (C3) Life Framework for Social Studies Standards; (b) National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) standards; and (c) a lesson plan/unit structured within The Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™. The lesson plan/unit is teaching-ready. All resources are prepared and ready for teachers and students, including some suggestions for useful, current digital tools. Ultimately, the lesson aims to reach educators who aspire to facilitate students’ conceptual understanding of human dignity and question the effects of discrimination.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"251 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86392503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining Virginia’s African American History Course through the Lens of Racial Pedagogical Content Knowledge","authors":"Eric D. Moffa, Jake Winston","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2023.2191920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2023.2191920","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract During the 2020–2021 academic year, Virginia piloted a state-designed secondary African American history elective in 16 school divisions. Using the framework of Racial Pedagogical Content Knowledge (RPCK), this study examined the treatment of race in the new course by analyzing the state-created curriculum materials and interviewing three teachers that were part of the pilot program. Findings suggest that the curriculum challenged problematic traditional historic narratives, addressed issues of identity and structural racism, and applied racial knowledge through civic action projects. Teachers felt prepared to teach the course due to sustained racially conscious professional development facilitated by the Virginia Department of Education. The curriculum of the state-designed course and its implementation by teachers align with the core tenets of RPCK, such as its interrogation of power structures and inequalities, examination of intersectionality, and empowerment of students to resist racism and injustice through informed social action. Our analysis found the course does not use “inherently divisive concepts” as they are portrayed in Executive Order No. 1.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"80 1","pages":"266 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82201607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristen E. Duncan, Delandrea Hall, Damaris C. Dunn
{"title":"Embracing the Fullness of Black Humanity: Centering Black Joy in Social Studies","authors":"Kristen E. Duncan, Delandrea Hall, Damaris C. Dunn","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2023.2174926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2023.2174926","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Research indicates that social studies classrooms, as they currently exist, are a site of suffering for Black students. This is largely because social studies curricula limit Black experiences to oppression and liberation. In this article, we propose implementing and centering Black joy in social studies classrooms to help social studies education work toward achieving its mission and provide space for the full range of Black humanity to enter classrooms. Toward this end, we provide practical starting points for classroom teachers in various social studies disciplines.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"241 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80006652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facilitating a Controversial Issues Discussion in Elementary School about Using Indigenous Sports Mascots","authors":"Ryan E. Hughes, Wayne Journell","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2023.2171352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2023.2171352","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this study, we investigate how a third-grade teacher enacted controversial issues discussion about the use of Indigenous people as sports mascots. We highlight how the teacher supported eight students’ sensemaking about the issue during small-group instruction. We provide suggestions for controversial issues teaching in elementary social studies.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"223 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86006250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Progress: Sourcing and the Promise of Primary Sources","authors":"Mark F. Newman","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2023.2168241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2023.2168241","url":null,"abstract":"Primary sources are tricky documents. They can be excellent texts to use in the classroom to improve content knowledge and build skills, but care must be taken so they promote rather than thwart learning (Eicher, 2007; Newman, 2014). A couple of preliminary steps can eliminate pitfalls and help a primary source fulfill its promise. Traditionally, sourcing meant authenticating the document by checking its provenance to ensure it is legit, meaning the document is what it purports to be (Wineburg, 1991). In recent years with digitized collections becoming more numerous, evaluating where the document was accessed has become important, as has assessing any information on the document included in the repository. Others steps might be considered beyond the traditional bounds of sourcing but they seem to fit the idea of authentication. Surveying the primary source document helps make sure it fits the people, place, and time context as well as the topic of study. So does researching its backstory. Neglecting sourcing can lead to misuse of a document and possibly mis-education. Conversely, when vetted carefully, the same document can prove to be quite valuable for studying different topics. Both scenarios have occurred with American Progress (Figure 1), a popular visual often used incorrectly to illustrate manifest destiny. It is about western expansion after the Civil War. American Progress has been used in schools, on the internet, in textbooks, and even on government websites to depict manifest destiny. In a number of U.S. history classrooms in various high schools in a large metropolitan area, I have witnessed teachers using American Progress to illustrate manifest destiny in the 1840s. Google manifest destiny pictures and the first visual seen is American Progress. Search on Wikimedia Commons and American Progress also is connected to manifest destiny. The online textbook, U.S History: Precolumbia to the New Millennium (https://www.ushistory.org/us/29.asp) describes America Progress as a symbol of manifest destiny. On The U.S. House of Representatives website, there is an essay on the “Era of U.S. Continental Expansion (2022),” that includes a short section on manifest destiny. American Progress is used as a visual with the caption: “Titled American Progress. Westward the course of destiny. Westward ho!, this print memorializes the movement of U.S. settlers across the continental United States during the 1840s and 1850s.” Various authors have also interpreted the picture as celebrating manifest destiny. In her article on selling the American West, Raab (2013, pp. 499, 501) described American Progress as depicting “the mythology of the endless frontier and a divinely inspired manifest destiny.” Greenberg (2005, pp. 1–2) was more effusive suggesting the picture was “perhaps the best-known image of the nineteenth-century concept of manifest destiny.” In the 1840s, manifest destiny was the belief that the United States had a God-given, divine right to exp","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"216 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83646645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward an Inclusive World History: Pre-Service Teachers and the Curricular Gate","authors":"Dylan Edmondson","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2023.2166006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2023.2166006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract World history curriculum in the United States is Eurocentric. By downplaying contributions from non-Western societies, state standards of world history in the modern era create a narrative of the West as a driver of progress and Europe as the primary protagonist of global events. Research further shows social studies teachers rely on such state standards in developing their curriculum. Utilizing the concept of curricular instructional gatekeeping as a framework, I argue it is important for world history teachers to consider what global content and narratives they allow students access to and think of ways they can make their curriculum more inclusive. I present a lesson I conducted with pre-service teachers as an example that preparation programs and/or in-service providers may utilize to assist teachers in developing a more global world history curriculum.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"205 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81862081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical Context to Civic Action: Trade Books and Disciplinary Literacy Instruction","authors":"Jeremiah C. Clabough, Caroline C. Sheffield","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2163221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2163221","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This six-day research project examined the potential for how trade books and primary sources can be used in concert with each other to develop middle school students’ disciplinary thinking skills in the manners advocated for in the C3 Framework. The project was focused on the trade book Thurgood, a picture book biography about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Students drew images and used words to describe Thurgood Marshall’s civic identity and answered metacognitive analysis prompts explaining their thinking and work. Students’ work samples suggest that they employed a nuanced integration of both civic and historical thinking to articulate how Thurgood Marshall’s lived experiences influenced his civic action and civic identity.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"183 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83808167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Morris, Samie Downard, Jackie Holzapfel, Denise Shockley
{"title":"First Person Presentations and Inquiry in First Grade","authors":"R. Morris, Samie Downard, Jackie Holzapfel, Denise Shockley","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2155101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2155101","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Students learned to perform first-person presentation to display information researched through an inquiry process. Teachers helped students learn inquiry during instructional time. Teachers, parents, and guardians worked together to support student learning in a high poverty and low educational attainment Appalachian community. The character the students selected represented democratic citizenship to the audience of friends, visitors, parents, guardians, and community members. Reading in the content area supported decision making about the difference between celebrity and democratic citizenship.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"173 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86692073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Meaning Making Cultivates Historical Consciousness: Identifying a Learning Trajectory and Pedagogical Guidelines to Promote It","authors":"Nathalie Popa","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2140641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2140641","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of this article is to present a pedagogical approach for history education. This approach is called Meaningful History and it outlines the process by which upper-level secondary history students can cultivate historical consciousness. Based on the notion of learning as meaning making and historical consciousness as a disposition to engage with history so as to make meaning of past human experience for oneself, the author describes a possible learning trajectory. Additionally, to show how this trajectory could apply to the classroom, the author offers three guidelines for educators to design and support such learning. These guidelines are: (1) negotiate the presence of the past, (2) inquire into the past with the help of habits of mind, (3) and build a sense of historical being. The guidelines are illuminated by examples that have been extracted from a design-inspired classroom experiment. In conclusion, the author suggests that future history education research investigate Meaningful History’s relevance and practicality in various settings.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"139 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87149156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}