Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 12 Issue 3

Why don’t we teach social studies? Preservice teachers’ social studies self-efficacy

Heather Rogers Haverback

The majority of states and school systems within the USA have implemented the Common Core State Standards, but with this implementation and focus on language arts and mathematics…

Paradigm flip? Investigating technology-integrated history pedagogies

Josh DeSantis, Ryan Boyd, Kyle Marks, Jake Putsch, Terrance Shepler

Successful technology integration into the teaching of social studies is imperative in the twenty-first century classroom. This study sought to answer the following questions: do…

Did it count?: Preservice teachers’ reflections on teaching with primary sources

Deborah Lynn Morowski, Theresa M. McCormick

During field experiences, preservice teachers often are asked plan and teach a lesson and then to reflect on their teaching. The purpose of this paper is to examine the guided…

Outside in: a critically compassionate approach to education for civic engagement

Thomas Lucey, Mary Frances Agnello, James Duke Laney

The purpose of this paper is to describe a method for preparing teacher candidates to educate for civic engagement through a philosophy of critical compassion.

iCurator: Using digital art collections to construct historical understanding about Renaissance humanism

Andrea Watson-Canning

The purpose of this paper is to provide secondary social studies practitioners with a research-based adaptable lesson plan aligned with the National Council for the Social Studies…

Social studies from a care ethics perspective in an elementary classroom

Colette Rabin, Grinell Smith

The purpose of this paper is to explore social studies from the moral perspective of an ethic of care. Care ethics considers not only the cognitive skills but also the affective…

Rethinking place, boundaries, and local history in social studies teacher education

Jason Harshman

The purpose of this paper is to report on a qualitative study that examined how pre-service teachers (PSTs) used mobile technology and experiential learning to critically examine…

An overview of multicultural education in the USA: grandest social experiment

James D. Kirylo

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the historical and theoretical foundation of multicultural education in the USA. The discussion begins with a review of how…

Meeting the demands of the C3 framework in elementary social studies methods

Michael Alan Neel, Amy Palmeri

In both elementary schools and elementary teacher education programs, social studies is marginalized while standards require increasingly more ambitious reasoning, reading, and…