Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 13 Issue 3

Composing identities: using digital documentary shorts to explore social issues

Kristine Pytash, Todd Hawley, Kate Morgan

The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of using digital shorts (Pytash et al., 2017) focusing on social issues in social studies classrooms.

Social studies teacher educators who do race work: A racial-pedagogical-content-knowledge analysis

Sara B. Demoiny

The purpose of this paper is to explore how 11 social studies teacher educators (SSTEs) incorporated race into their social studies methods courses. It examines the instructional…

Demagogues and the “Guardrails of Democracy”

Mark Pearcy, Jeremiah Clabough

Contemporary American politics has been characterized by excessive, vitriolic rhetoric since the 2016 presidential victory of Donald Trump. However, Donald Trump’s brand of…

Is the free press free? Using truth claims to examine fake news

Jeremiah Clabough, Mark Pearcy

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship dynamics between the executive office and the free press; and how these dynamics have been altered under the Trump…

“Wild words” – analyzing angry rhetoric in American politics

Jeremiah Clabough, Mark Pearcy

The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of angry political rhetoric employed by George Wallace and Donald Trump. The authors start by discussing the civic thinking skills…

Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr Lesson

KayLaura Miller, Janie Hubbard

Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr is a timeless book well-known among K-6 teachers, students, librarians and book-lovers throughout the USA. This…

After the march, what? Rethinking how we teach the feminist movement

Amanda Elizabeth Vickery

The purpose of this paper is to explore the history of Black women as critical civic agents fighting for the recognition of their intersecting identities in multiple iterations of…