{"title":"Consensus Circle Presidential Rating: Shifting Traditional Social Studies Instruction While Preparing Students for Democracy","authors":"Thomas H. Levine","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2062273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2062273","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Political history lends itself to traditional patterns of teaching and learning in social studies such as students memorizing facts presented in lectures or textbooks. This article presents a recurring activity structure for teaching U.S. political history—Consensus Circle Presidential Rating (CCPR)—which requires students to read across different sources, form and defend a judgment of a presidency’s impact, and engage in persuasion and consensus-seeking with peers. I juxtapose CCPR with traditional patterns of teaching and learning to suggest how CCPR can shift teachers’ and students’ roles during social studies instruction to promote critical thinking, perspective taking, and civil discussion and disagreement. Teaching political history in general—and this activity in particular—could reinforce the marginalization of women and people of color; conversely, CCPR could compliment history teaching that foregrounds the experience of diverse Americans while conveying the important roles government and social movements play in shaping American society. The article provides a student-friendly assignment sheet, a graphic organizer for note-taking, and examples of sources to help teachers consider how they might adapt this activity to their own context.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"319 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78309538","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":"Positioning Students to Experience Poverty and Consider Its Implications","authors":"J. Bickford, Michael D. Gillespie","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2079594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2079594","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examined students’ encounters with and responses to poverty-based experiential learning during an undergraduate sociology class. Students’ academic readings and experiencing real-life context were channeled through reflective analysis of public policy’s implications. Students’ writing, which had reflective and diagnostic elements, was scrutinized using qualitative content analysis methods by two trained researchers. Findings revealed deep student engagement. Feelings of empathy, solidarity, and fearing failure’s inevitability emerged within students’ clear, complex, text-based writing. A small sample prevented large-scale extrapolation, which was a key limitation. Practical implications included suggestions for economics, civics, and sociology instruction as well as guidance for how, when, and when not to use experiential learning.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"36 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77841790","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":"Using an Instructional Model of Historical Empathy to Teach the Holocaust","authors":"Caroline J. Conner, Taylor C. Graham","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2073582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2073582","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The current study investigates the impact of using an Instructional Model of Historical Empathy to teach the Holocaust on students’ ability to contextualize historical events, recognize perspectives, and affectively connect to victims of the Holocaust. A three-day instructional unit was designed that incorporates primary sources from a variety of voices such as victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Participants included a tenth grade on-level world history class enrolled in a large high school located in the southeastern U.S. Using a mixed method research design, the researchers measured students’ level of historical empathy qualitatively and quantitatively through pre- and post-surveys, work samples, and interviews. Results indicate that students’ ability to contextualize the Holocaust, recognize diverse perspectives, and care for individuals of the past significantly improved. Students made moral judgements of the past and stressed the need to act on behalf of others to prevent future atrocities. Using an Instructional Model of Historical Empathy to teach the Holocaust can meet curricular goals of improving historical thinking and add value beyond school by promoting social justice.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"19 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79874587","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":"The First Amendment, Religious Freedom, and Public Schools in the South","authors":"Elizabeth E. Saylor, Sohyun An, Lisa Buchanan","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2021.1992745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2021.1992745","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study was designed to explore preservice elementary teacher understanding of The First Amendment and religious freedom in public schools in the Southeastern United States. Participants of the study were 160 preservice elementary teachers enrolled in the teacher preparation programs of 3 universities across 2 states located in a region commonly referred to as the “Bible Belt.” Data was collected via an electronic survey containing questions and scenarios requiring short responses, and field notes were recorded during class discussions of the topic. Results indicated that preservice elementary teachers possessed some basic understanding of The First Amendment and that public educators are acting government agents of the state. Yet, they demonstrated a dearth in understanding of their professional duties in accordance with this law, specifically with regards to the Establishment Clause.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"125 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85480979","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":"Problematizing White Allyship in the Civil Rights Curriculum of Studies Weekly ®","authors":"Melissa K. Stanley, S. Schroeder","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2068491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2068491","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The American Civil Rights Movement has often been misrepresented in textbooks, children’s literature, and other curricular materials. With knowledge of the ongoing curricular distortion around Black history in P-12 curricula in mind, this article explores how a commonly used social studies curriculum, Studies Weekly ®, represents the Civil Rights Movement in its Standing for Freedom Civil Rights curriculum package. Through a quantitative and qualitative content analysis, we reveal how the Studies Weekly ® Civil Rights Curriculum distorts the Civil Rights Movement history by centering a White ally, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. Ultimately the curricular materials portray Mulholland as a central figure in the movement, thereby marginalizing Black activists and offering a narrative of the movement that relies nearly exclusively on Mulholland’s life and experiences. In doing so, we conclude, the Studies Weekly ® curriculum does harm to the civic learning and potential of all students by failing to offer an appropriate vision of White allyship and activism.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"1 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83333072","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":"The Impact of Professional Learning Communities on Social Studies Teachers’ Professional Development and Student Academic Achievement","authors":"Ahmet Çopur, Muammer Demirel","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2058905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2058905","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The main goal in this study was to explore the impact of a professional learning community (PLC) on social studies (SS) teachers’ professional development (PD) and student academic achievement. With this in mind, the study was carried out using a design-based research approach with an overarching ADDIE design model. The participants of the study consisted of six SS teachers from two middle schools and 113 students. Data were collected using scales, observations, and semi-structured interviews and analyzed through qualitative techniques on teacher data as well as t-tests on student data. Findings suggest that the PLC designed in a reflective thinking cycle has had a positive impact on teacher PD and enhanced student achievement in SS. The conclusion is that there is a positive relationship between teacher participation in the PLC and student achievement. Therefore, it is recommended that the PLC be made widely available in PD of SS teachers, and PD programs be planned as long-term hands-on training activities, while also taking into account the specific needs of the field.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"300 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89346177","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":"Teaching as Complex Intellectual Work: A Phenomenological Study of Social Studies Pedagogy","authors":"April Walker, Todd Kettler","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2054923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2054923","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract High quality teaching involves deep content knowledge, understanding students and their learning processes, and complex skills of teaching and assessment. Students who experience high quality teaching tend to achieve higher annual growth rates. This study used a descriptive, qualitative research model to explore excellence in social studies teaching. Purposive sample was used to select district coordinators (n = 4) and their highest quality social studies teachers (n = 9). The process of phenomenological decontextualizing and recontextualizing produced five structural themes. Excellent social studies teachers have intellectual identities that focus on having deep content knowledge and a commitment to learning. They use their deep content knowledge to help students find relevancy. They view themselves as curriculum designers who find and curate their own resources. They facilitate student-centered learning experiences that engage students, encourage inquiry, and allow for student dialogue. Lastly, excellent social studies teachers design learning experiences to get students to think critically about different perspectives, synthesize multiple sources or viewpoints, and consider the lesser told stories of history. These contextualized, phenomenological structures reflect the teaching demands of common frameworks of social studies pedagogy including ambitious teaching approaches, authentic intellectual work, and the college, career, and civic life (C3) framework.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"283 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79050629","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":"Adding International Elements to a Social Studies Teacher Education Program","authors":"Cory Callahan","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2053831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2053831","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Here the author shares his attempt to add, without financial cost, substantive and dynamic international experiences to the secondary social studies teacher education program he facilitates. He provides thick descriptions of (1) the overarching goals of a collaborative, online, international learning project, (2) the curriculum materials he helped design and the classroom experiences he orchestrated, and (3) the project’s international context. Moreover, this paper advocates for internationalization by describing a 5-week, inquiry-based project that featured university students in Japan and the US using an online video discussion platform to asynchronously introduce themselves to international peers, share their understanding of powerful social studies instruction, explore similarities in social studies education between the two nations, refine their understanding of international education, and share ideas for a wise-practice classroom activity that could be taught to secondary students in both nations. Because this article shares the project’s rationale, schedule, assignments, and assessment rubrics, it may prove helpful for teachers and teacher educators as they envision ways to further prepare students to think and act globally.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"271 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75115631","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 Might Argumentation Research Inform Discourse-Based Social Studies Education?","authors":"D. Kuhn, Mariel Halpern","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2053832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2053832","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Social studies educators who applaud discourse-based approaches may benefit by adding research on argumentation to their conceptual toolkit. We make the case here for its value, in particular emphasizing that argumentation skill needs to develop, suggesting an apprenticeship model of this development and highlighting evidence supporting it.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"160 1","pages":"264 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77976387","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":"Critical Juxtaposing of War and Migration: A Content Analysis of Southeast Asian Refugee Children’s Literature","authors":"Sohyun An","doi":"10.1080/00377996.2022.2046996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2022.2046996","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Using critical refugee studies as a theoretical lens, I analyzed Southeast Asian refugee children’s literature to identify its pedagogical values and limitations for critical teaching about the Vietnam War. The findings suggest the children’s literature can help challenge the dominant narratives of the Vietnam War as exclusively an American tragedy and of the Southeast Asian refugees as simply helpless victims by centering Southeast Asian experiences of the war. Yet the children’s literature largely remained silent about the refugees’ complex personhood and the U.S. role as a violent aggressor generating the refugee crisis in the first place. The implications for teaching practice are suggested.","PeriodicalId":83074,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of social education : official journal of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"249 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89013404","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}