This dissertation is a single qualitative case study of how a Chinese heritage history professor taught the Chinese Cultural Revolution as difficult history, the deep att[...]

This article describes a research study on the appropriateness for social studies classrooms of CNN Student News, a free online news program specifically aimed at middle [...]

In seeking a disciplinary literacy model that would enable students to express well-developed perspectives and argue contrasting views with the sound use of evidence, we [...]

In the decade since the attacks of September 11th, the political climate in the United States has become increasingly intolerant of opposing viewpoints. This climate, mad[...]

Within the literature on teacher education in the United States, relatively little research has been conducted on how preservice teachers conceptualize popular depictions[...]

In this content analysis of state U.S. History and Civics standards, we compared the treatment of immigration across three types of states with differing immigration demo[...]

In an analysis of National Assessment of Educational Progress data, Niemi and Junn (1998) found that students in the United States know very little about politics. While [...]

The work of John Dewey and his beliefs regarding student-centered learning are discussed in an effort to analyze the standardization of public education with a focus on s[...]

Using Kelly's (1986) four perspectives on teacher disclosure, I analyze the quality of instruction present in the classrooms of six high school government teachers during[...]

Do you find yourself … … searching for a new approach to teaching social studies that incorporates inquiry? … in a school, district, or state that hasn't offered professi[...]

As former teachers, one secondary and one middle grades, who are now teacher educators, we understand the challenge of finding appropriate resources that provide preservi[...]

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. This study examines the effectiveness of asynchronous communication in facilitating historica[...]

This study describes one high school civics teacher's use of film as a way to improve his students' understanding of politics. Using episodes of The West Wing, an award-w[...]

Using an interpretive analysis, American history standards from nine states that incorporate high-stakes assessments in social studies are analyzed for their representati[...]

This article addresses the continuing digital divide in public education, one that defines itself largely along geographic, socioeconomic, and cultural lines. The article[...]

This paper describes the findings of a qualitative study of six government teachers from three diverse high schools in the Southwest Chicago suburbs during the 2008 Presi[...]

This issue marks my debut as editor of the Interdisciplinary Education Feature of Social Studies Research and Practice (SSRP). I would like to thank Dr. Cynthia Sunal, Ex[...]

This article describes possibilities afforded by using social media, specifically Twitter, as a way to encourage students to join political conversations across the Unite[...]

This article addresses the need for researchers to move beyond discipline-specific approaches to research and practice and offers an example of how interdisciplinary unde[...]

Secondary civics and government courses are often framed as a content area in which students learn about processes of government and ways of participating in a democratic[...]

One of the fundamental tenets of social studies education is preparing students to become knowledgeable and informed citizens. Especially in this era of increased communi[...]

K-12 teachers in the United States are often discouraged from disclosing their political opinions in the classroom, and those that do are often accused of indoctrinating [...]

This article makes a case for using The West Wing's Santos/Vinick presidential election as a way to simulate election politics in civics and government courses. The serie[...]

The authors make a case for using The West Wing, a political drama that aired on NBC from 1999 to 2006, as an instructional tool in high school civics and government clas[...]

This paper looks critically at the way technology is currently used in social studies education and makes the argument that technology can better serve teachers and stude[...]