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“Schools Need to Wake Up!” Student Participants’ Calls for Human Rights Education
Gradwell, Jill M.; Rodeheaver, Misty; Dahlgren, Robert L. - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 10 (2015) 1, pp. 1-20
From labor conditions to public health and environmental justice, globalization has created an increasingly complex web of issues surrounding human rights. Research in social studies education points to adolescents’ intrinsic curiosity when engaged in these multiple issues, as well as their...
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PCK in place and with a purpose: a case of historic site-based professional development on hallowed ground at Gettysburg
Powell, Dave - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 18 (2023) 2, pp. 151-163
Purpose This paper aims to describe a professional development workshop designed to enhance teachers' pedagogical content knowledge. Design/methodology/approach The program draws on a carefully articulated definition of pedagogical knowledge as elaborated by Shulman, and features the work of...
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Minimum vs. Essential?: The Translation and Trajectory of Policy into Practice
van Hover, Stephanie; Hicks, David; Washington, Elizabeth; … - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 11 (2016) 2, pp. 51-70
This study examined and traced the relationship between, and the influence of, the official standards documents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the related day-to-day lesson planning and implementation of a pair of co-teachers. Using a case study methodology alongside a conventional content...
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Inquiry Teaching with Primary Source Documents: An Iterative Approach
Woyshner, Christine - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 5 (2010) 3, pp. 36-45
Research on inquiry teaching in the social studies has concluded that it can refer to any number of approaches and is not taught consistently. The scholarship reveals that inquiry teaching, when used in the classroom, tends to overemphasize one activity — interpreting primary source documents...
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History Through a Child’s Eye: Pre-service Teachers Making Sense of Children’s Understandings
Bolick, Cheryl Mason; Torrez, Cheryl; Manfra, Meghan McGlinn - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 9 (2014) 3, pp. 1-20
A team of five researchers set out to document pre-service teachers’ experiences interviewing elementary-aged children about social studies topics. Nearly 200 pre-service teachers across three universities participated in this longitudinal study. Collected data include: course readings,...
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The effect of family background on student effort
Kuehn, Zoë; Landeras, Pedro - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 14 (2014) 4, pp. 1337-1403
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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure
Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006
schools operate and how they might be made more effective. In this new framework students have a dual role. They are both (a … model. Student effort, engagement and discipline vary a lot within schools, across schools and across nations and have … at least eight years. Students who attend schools with studious well-behaved classmates learn more. Disruptive students …
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Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn - Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure
Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
schools operate and how they might be made more effective. In this new framework students have a dual role. They are both (a … model. Student effort, engagement and discipline vary a lot within schools, across schools and across nations and have … at least eight years. Students who attend schools with studious well-behaved classmates learn more. Disruptive students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005457177
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Antecedents and consequences of perceived student employability in Qatar : parental perspective
El-Kassem, Rima Charbaji; Sellami, Abdellatif; Elawad, … - In: International review on public and non-profit marketing 15 (2018) 4, pp. 575-589
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Why economics textbooks should, but don't, and won't, change
Colander, David C. - In: European journal of economics and economic policies : … 12 (2015) 2, pp. 229-235
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