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Gender Balance in K-12 American History Textbooks
Kay A. ChickThis research study evaluated K-12 American history textbooks for gender balance. Elementary, middle school, and high school texts were assessed for the number of male and female…
Social Studies and History Teachers’ Uses of Non-Digital and Digital Historical Resources
John K. Lee, Peter E. DoolittleA gap in the literature on digital history was explored through the use of a survey of 104 high school social studies teachers, administered in a large urban/suburban school…
Toward Twenty-First Century Global Citizenship: A Teacher Education Curriculum
Mary Frances Agnello, David R. White, Wesley FryerDrawing from three areas of research, the authors propose a model for twenty-first century international teacher education. Through literacy, technology, and global citizenship…
Importing Peace Education from Belfast: A Prosocial Approach to School Improvement in the US
Linda Pickett, Susan CarsonThis paper presents the results and experiences of one school within a unique university/K-12 school district partnership that approached school reform through a framework of…
Virginia vs. Florida: Two Beginning History Teachers’ Perceptions of the Influence of High-Stakes Tests on Their Instructional Decision-Making
Elizabeth Anne Yeager, Stephanie van HoverThis paper examines how a beginning teacher in Virginia and a beginning teacher in Florida make sense of the high-stakes tests in their state. By examining beginning teachers in…
Strange Bedfellows: Censorship and History Textbooks
Melissa N. MatusevichIn spite of required state curriculum objectives, American history textbooks often become the de facto curriculum defining history. Self-imposed censorship by textbook publishers…
Theocratic Education: Understanding the Islamic Republic of Iran by Analyzing Its Textbooks
Khodadad (Khodi) KavianiOn February 11, 1979, the monarchy rule in Iran was replaced by an Islamic theocracy, and the new government revised textbooks to promote a new identity based on Shia Islam and…
Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan: Going Home
Cynthia Szymanski SunalThis lesson plan can be used with elementary students to discuss the geographical concept of place. It uses a trade book, Going Home, to foster students’ consideration of their…
Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan—Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson
Nancy P. GallavanRachel Carson was a notable woman who studied the environment and cared for the planet Earth. Her life was highlighted by several significant events that unfolded to future events…
Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan: It’s Back to School We Go!
Janie HubbardIt’s Back to School We Go! First Day Stories From Around the World by Ellen Jackson, is a fiction book, using short, first-person narratives to compare the first day of school for…
Notable Trade Book Lesson: Be My Neighbor
Dawn T. CorsoThe following lesson is an example of how to begin a unit of study on cultural universals through the accessibility of quality literature. Be My Neighbor (2004) by Maya Ajmera and…
A Learning Cycle Lesson Plan: Scale
Cynthia Szymanski Sunal, Dennis W. Sunal, Mary E. HaasThis learning cycle lesson plan uses hands-on and minds-on experiences to assist fourth or fifth graders in developing the important concept of scale. The lesson focuses on…
A Learning Cycle Lesson Plan: Learning from the Paintings and Drawings of Artists
Mary E. HaasStudent-created pictures are commonly used to assess students’ remembrances of experiences they are unable to verbalize. Artists, too, frequently select events as the subject of…
A Tale worth Telling: Helping Students Construct Stories of the Past
Kimberly C. Gray, Daryl E. FridleyThis article explores the clichéd notion of history as narrative. Within the context of an interesting narrative, events, ideas, and people in the past become plot points instead…
Reinventing PowerPoint: A New Look at an Old Tool
Mark Hofer, Robb Ponton, Kathleen SwanMicrosoft PowerPoint is a powerful, yet often underutilized, orchestration tool for learning. While its most common use may be no more powerful or effective than an overhead…
Why Vote? Whose Voice Is Viable, and Who Is Vulnerable?
Lois McFadyen ChristensenJust as the fall of the year itself undergoes a transformation, frequently the season conjures up the notion of new beginnings—of change. Besides the detaching, accumulating, and…
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1933-5415Online date, start – end:
2006Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Cynthia Sunal