Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 6 Issue 3

Marginalized Students’ Uneasy Learning: Korean Immigrant Students’ Experiences of Learning Social Studies

Yoonjung Choi, Jae Hoon Lim, Sohyun An

This study explores how recent Korean immigrant students experience learning social studies and how their unique social, cultural, and educational backgrounds as new immigrants…

Turkish Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs about the Nature of Social Studies

Mehmet Açıkalın

The purpose of this study was to investigate Turkish pre-service teachers’ beliefs about social studies in order to expand upon a debate that has been ongoing for the last few…

Multiple Paths to Testable Content? Differentiation in a High-stakes Testing Context

Stephanie van Hover, David Hicks, Elizabeth Washington

This qualitative case study explores how one secondary world history teacher, teaching in a high-stakes testing context in a district pushing teachers to utilize differentiated…

Negotiating Visions of Teaching: Teaching Social Studies for Social Justice

Ruchi Agarwal

Pre-service teachers may leave their graduate programs with strong social justice leanings, yet most begin teaching struggling to integrate their visions into a context…

Examining Original Political Cartoon Methodology: Concept Maps and Substitution Lists

J. H. Bickford III

Previous research on classroom uses for political cartoons identified two negative trends: creative stagnation (as teachers utilized them solely for interpretation) and age…

Authentic Intellectual Work: Using the Internet to Learn about the Supreme Court

Scott Scheuerell

As more social studies classrooms gain access to the Internet each year, teachers are frequently exploring ways to maximize the use of this technology in their respective learning…

Questions, Quests, and Quizzical Thinking: Scaffolding student Inquiry through the Internet

Jeremiah Clabough, Thomas Turner

Inquiry-based instruction in social studies began as a transformative movement whose proponents included Shirley Engle, Donald Oliver, and James Shaver in the middle of the…

In Another American Skin: Development of Empathy through Desktop Documentary Making

James E. Schul

This article analyzes a classroom project that integrated desktop documentary making with an educational foundations course in order to foster empathetic development in…

Supersizing Social Studies Through the Use of Web 2.0 Technologies

Lori Holcomb, Candy Beal, John K. Lee

This article seeks to demonstrate how social studies has come to be an all-inclusive subject: it has become supersized. When supported by Web 2.0 technology, social studies…

RESPECTing Culture with All Learners

Freddie A. Bowles, Nancy P. Gallavan

The goal for social studies teachers is to offer an array of knowledge, skills, and dispositions that fulfill the ten National Council for the Social Studies standards. Powerful…