Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 13 Issue 1

Examining teachers’ development and implementation of compelling questions

Rebecca G.W. Mueller

The College, Career, and Civic Life Framework and recently revised social studies standards in a number of states have placed renewed emphasis on inquiry-based instruction rooted…

“It’s not something we thought about”: teachers’ perception of historiography and narratives

Sarah Drake Brown, Richard L. Hughes

The purpose of this paper is to examine three high school teachers’ beliefs about how their understanding of historiography influences their teaching.

Cultivating the collective: exploring the American dream with sixth graders

Sarah Elizabeth Montgomery, Zak K. Montgomery, Sarah Vander Zanden, Ashley Jorgensen, Mirsa Rudic

The concept of an American Dream was interrogated during a service-learning partnership between university students and a multilingual, racially diverse class of sixth graders…

Dialogic pedagogy in the supervision of social studies student teachers

Alexander Cuenca

Research reveals very little about how the supervision of social studies student teachers ought to be enacted. The paper aims to discuss this issue.

Involving students with autism in social studies

Linda Mauricio Reeves, Susan Santoli

The purpose of this paper is to inform teachers of evidence-based practices designed to enhance the academic performance of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the…

Exploring exemplars in elementary teacher education: Arts-centered instruction for social justice

Alison Asher Dobrick, Laura Fattal

Educators who teach for social justice connect what and how they teach in the classroom directly to humanity’s critical problems. Teacher education at the elementary level must…

Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans…

Margaret Angel Bestwick

The purpose of this paper (i.e. Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service; Pimentel, 2016) is to detail a…

We Came to America

Oluseyi M. Odebiyi, Cynthia S. Sunal, Dennis W. Sunal

This early grades lesson set for ages 4-7 uses the book We Came to America as a resource to guide students’ thinking through US core values relating to diversity and tolerance of…

Mamie P. Clark’s denied research “thou hast the power” E.B. Browning

Lois M. Christensen, Elizabeth K. Wilson

Black women’s contributions to the struggle for educational equality and to the USA Civil Rights Movement have been deplorably under-examined and scarcely evident in educational…

Preservice teachers’ visions of themselves: powerful teachers or powerful social studies teachers?

Alicia R. Crowe, Evan Mooney, Todd S. Hawley

The purpose of this paper is to share findings from research on preservice social studies teachers’ visions of themselves as they prepare to enter their student teaching…