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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Social sciences Study and teaching"”.
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Teaching sustainability as a social issue: Learning from three teachers
… to meet their needs. Engaging students with the social causes and effects of sustainability issues may help to address and create dialogue about our own needs and those of future generations. Unfortunately, no studies examine how teachers deliver this topic as a social issue in their classrooms. …
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Are They "American" Enough to Teach Social Studies? Korean American Teachers' Social Studies Teaching Experiences in American Public Schools
This study explores three Korean American social studies teachers' experiences of teaching social studies, focusing on their curricular and pedagogical perceptions and practices. Framed by sociocultural theory, this study aims to shed light on the heterogeneous stories and socially and culturally …
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Use of Brain Function Concepts by Social Studies Teachers
The problem. The basic problem examined in the study was the degree to which selected brain-function concepts had been applied to teaching techniques by Des Moines area secondary social studies teachers who responded to an opinionnaire. These were three primary questions: (1) How aware were …
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Museum-Based Teacher Education: Teacher Meaning-Making at a Jewish Heritage Museum
This study answers the question of what meanings teacher-participants make in Holocaust professional development at a Jewish heritage museum in a mandate state. By understanding these meanings, the educational community can better understand how a particular context and approach influences teacher …
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An outline course of study for the seventh and eighth grades in the social studies
<p>The outline course of study in this thesis is offered as a suggested solution of a problem which arises from an effort to adopt for the use of the seventh and eighth grades of elementary schools, books which have been written for use in the junior high school.</p><p>The problem arises primarily …
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Disarming Microaggressions: How Black College Students Self-regulate Racial Stressors within Predominately White Institutions
… States has transformed from overt prejudice and blatant discrimination to more covert, embedded, ambiguous manifestations called racial microaggressions (Constantine, 2007; Pierce, Carew, Pierce-Gonzalez, & Willis, 1978; Sue, Capidolupo et al., 2007). Researchers have demonstrated the unique, …
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The development of guidelines for the organization of the fifth grade social studies curriculum
… teachers. supervisors, administrators, parents and other citizens have always needed to work together for better educational programs in their communities. Curriculum planning and improvement in our complex and changing world have been a necessity and a cooperative responsibility.</p>
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An appraisal of the treatment of black Americans in selected elementary school social studies filmstrips
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University,
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Model evidence links (MELs) and the impact of critical thinking on open ended responses
1 PDF file (viii, 83 pages)
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Conceptions of Citizenship and Civic Education: Lessons from Three Israeli Civics Classrooms
… on the notion that philosophical assumptions and educational aims are important factors that gear educational processes, this study focuses on the ways in which teachers' assumptions and goals regarding citizenship influence their teaching of civics. The research of this topic is pursed based …
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An Identification of Economic Concepts and Generalizations in a Sixth Grade Social Studies Textbook
<p>This study purported to: (1) locate and identify economic concepts and generalizations contained in a sixth grade social studies text by Cutright and Durand: “Living As American Neighbors”; (2) indicate by the use of a scale whether the identified concepts and generalizations were merely …
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The effect of manipulative materials on student motivation
… on student motivation in the subject area of social studies. The students who participated in the project were divided into control and experimental groups. Each group was comprised of twenty-one third grade students living in rural southern New Jersey. Both groups completed pre and post …
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Social studies and the internet
<p>This study sought to address two primary questions: (1) to determine if students' attitudes towards using the Internet as a resource changed as a result of their applying a web evaluation guide, and (2) to determine if the quality of students' research products improved as a result of web …
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An exploratory investigation into the outcomes of the integration of language arts and social studies lessons
… happens when the integration of language arts and social studies lessons takes place in a unit on the Underground Railroad in a fourth grade classroom. By applying a literature-based approach to teaching social studies concepts and using the theme of the Underground Railroad, I was able to …
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