Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 17 Issue 2

Teaching and learning with morning meeting in elementary social studies methods courses

Ariel Cornett, Alexa M. Quinn

Using morning meeting, an evidence-based practice that is part of the responsive classroom (RC) approach, the authors (two teacher educators [TEs]) created opportunities for…

A lesson in missed opportunities: examining the use of data visualizations in online history lessons

Carrie E. Finholm, Tamara L. Shreiner

Over the last several decades, individuals have had access to and encountered more data than ever before. Data can be used to persuade people how to vote, support policies, adopt…

Critical friendship as vital to the development of RPCK

Elizabeth C. Barrow, Taylor Norman

The purpose of this manuscript is to reveal how a White social studies teacher educator attempted to go from being a non-racist educator to an anti-racist educator (King and…

“Courage, loyalty, and cruelty”: learning history in a classical Christian school

Colleen Fitzpatrick

This study explores how the context of a classical Christian school (CCS) interacted with a how teacher taught and how students learned and experienced a unit about World War II.

Opportunities and barriers: social studies in the absence of mandated curriculum

Adam Huck

This study sought to identify teachers' overall experiences in teaching social studies, the considerations they make in planning and implementing social studies lessons in the…

Effects of structured writing strategies in the high school history classroom

Erin Bennett, Phu Vu, Lan Vu

This action research explored the use of structured writing formats including writing frames and writing guides to improve high school student historical writing.

Engaging with historically marginalized voices through blackout poetry

Miguel Gómez

This paper seeks to provide instructional methods for using blackout poetry and primary sources to learn about marginalized voices from history within a social studies classroom…

Travel with the “giants” of the Harlem Renaissance

Cynthia Leigh Wadlington, Janet Strickland, Natasha N. Ramsay-Jordan, Andrea Smith

Harlem Renaissance Party by Faith Ringgold follows a young boy and his uncle as they visit the “giants” of the Harlem Renaissance. Lonnie and Uncle Bates travel through Harlem to…