Alberta’s new social studies curriculum misses the mark on child development, lacks adequate opportunities for critical thinking and neglects teaching about colonization.
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There’s more to effective teaching than just implementing school policies.
A history scholar sees leeway and loopholes in a wave of new state laws that seek to control what teachers can say about racism in America’s past.
There was one central reason the Civil War happened.
From the founding of the U.S., public schools were seen as a key way to develop an informed, active citizenry. Social studies educators struggle to achieve that goal today.
Tight funding and COVID-related limits on face-to-face contact have forced academics to find other ways to expose students to the real-life work they are preparing them for.
Teachers shouldn’t avoid this topic, no matter how uncomfortable it might make them to discuss it with children and teens.
Teachers grappling with how to teach current events at divisive times should emphasize history, study original sources and address polarization.
A former social studies teacher lists three ways educators and others can better understand the difficult subject of slavery in the US, including a way to hear directly from freed slaves themselves.
A former middle school teacher offers a series of tips on how educators can teach young people to engage in more civil discourse.
Ontario’s move to ignore the calls of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to add Indigenous content to its history and social studies curriculum is foolish and dangerous.
A new mentorship program uses fiction to teach children’s rights, and to help kids understand and prevent bullying.
High school students in America learn two very different perspectives on World War I in their U.S. and world history classes. But which of these competing viewpoints should take center stage?
School garden projects are becoming hugely popular. Over 25 percent of public elementary schools include garden-based learning. Do these gardens improve the education and health of young people?
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Assistant Professor of Secondary Social Studies, West Virginia University
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Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education, North Carolina State University
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Associate Professor of Education, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor, University of The Fraser Valley
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Professor, Social Studies and History Education, Queen's University, Ontario
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Director, National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement, University of Southern California
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Werklund Research Professor of Education, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Elementary Education, Mississippi State University
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Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
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Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
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Chair- Curriculum Studies, Stellenbosch University
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Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Rowan University
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