Sentences with phrase «on social studies education»

Working with educators, classroom teachers, and pre-service teachers at universities in Istanbul, Küthaya, and Izmir, he focused on global citizenship, with particular emphasis on social studies education and what global citizenship education means from a Turkish perspective.

They left their mark on social studies education, and defined what they thought the proper role of social studies ought to be in our society.

The significance of mounting millions of public documents into Internet - accessible files is a project that will have immense impact on social studies education in this century (the Library of Congress» American Memory website is http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html).

For two decades much has been written about the potential impact of technology on social studies education, both as a pedagogical tool and as a topic for exploration (Whitworth & Berson, 2003).

CHICAGO — As I approached the results of the latest Nation's Report Card on social studies education, I prepared myself for an inevitable drop in scores.

Rodriguez focused on social studies education at Boston University as an undergraduate and, most recently, taught middle school social studies at a turnaround school, what she describes as «the lowest - achieving school for over 25 years in Hartford,» where 100 percent of students were black or Latino and qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.

Earth Inc. — A Service - Learning Lesson Plan An Education World article focuses on the Social Studies Education Consortium, which offers a template for a model service project.

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The study goes on to explain how the social entrepreneurship trend transcends education level in many regions.

Before dismissing Augustine as being ancient, his dilemma as being archaic and his solutions as being irrelevant, it is well that we take a close look at what has been happening in secular education and also at the relationship between human / social studies in secular institutions on the one hand and Christian institutions on the other.

As noted above in connection with the inroads and impact of Maslowan humanism, human / social studies peaked in the twentieth century and have had a profound impact on Christian education as well as American education in general.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and edustudies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and eduStudies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

Though such successive innovations in theological study as the social gospel, social ethics, religious education, psychological counseling and ecumenical relations may receive much publicity the schools seem to go on their accustomed way, teaching what they have always taught: Biblical and systematic theology, church history and preaching.

Breastfeeding was related to higher social class and education at both ages, confirming earlier studies.13 — 15, 20, 21, 26 Mothers who breastfed also scored higher on the PPVT - R and had more optimal parenting skills assessed on the HOME.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Education, admitted the facts on social mobility were «depressing» and cited studies showing that, for people in their thirties, the social class of their parents mattered even more than it did in the past.

Signaling a profound turn away from the education policies of the Bloomberg administration, newly appointed schools chancellor Carmen Fariña promised to retreat from an emphasis on standardized testing and preparation, to re-focus on arts, social studies and science, and to implement changes that «happen with people, not to people.»

A study in the BMJ in 2012 found that having a professional therapist teach cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to an entire class was no more effective than having the teacher give their usual personal social and health education classes, in terms of the effect on pupils» well - being.

Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Social Work, who authored the study.

Researchers have long studied and documented the influence religion has on social groups; however, few have examined the role it plays in education.

In a study recently published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Chang - Kredl and her colleague Daniela Colannino (MA 16, Child Studies) examined popular representations of teachers on the social media platform Reddit.

«Studies on early childhood education programs have historically focused on child outcomes,» said study lead author Terri Sabol, an assistant professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern's School of Education and Sociaeducation programs have historically focused on child outcomes,» said study lead author Terri Sabol, an assistant professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Psocial policy at Northwestern's School of Education and SociaEducation and Social PSocial Policy.

In order to isolate the effect of social networking on STD prevalence, the study controlled for a range of socioeconomic variables including population, race, age, income, education, and population density.

She currently serves on the Executive Board of the AERA Social Studies Research SIG as newsletter editor, on the Editorial Board of Theory and Research in Social Education, on the Executive Board of the College and University Faculty Assembly — National Council for the Social Studies, and on the Board of the Michigan Council for History Education.

Halvorsen's work focuses on elementary social studies education, particularly for children from low socio - economic backgrounds, the history of education, teacher preparation in the social studies, and the integration of social studies and literacy.

Over the last few years as education researchers at University of Michigan and Michigan State University, we have worked to address this question through a large study of the effects of PBL on social studies and some aspects of literacy achievement in second - grade classrooms.

Not only is the game great fun and easy to integrate into the curriculum, it also reinforces standards set by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS), the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE).

As researchers long focused on social studies and informational reading and writing education in the early elementary grades, we were frustrated by this pattern of neglect, and troubled that it is even worse in high - poverty school settings.

The Offscreen Education Programme takes small groups of British schoolkids from working - class backgrounds on international expeditions most social studies teachers only dream about.

A few years ago I even had a non-speaking paraplegic boy in a wheel chair who was on a breathing respirator sitting in my regular education social studies class.

The most exciting avenue in my experience was to build in a unit on education in our high school social studies curriculum.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.

Inventing an ideology Jonathan Burack argues that a «global education ideology» has «captivated» social studies experts in recent years, resulting in a curriculum that is «deeply suspicious» of both American institutions and our role in the world («The Sun Sets on the West,» Feature, Spring 2004).

Like many previous critics of social studies, Mr. Burack relies on a few quotes taken out of context to shock his readers into concern that an «antiwestern» bias has taken over the education of our youth.

For 11 years, Bub worked closely with Dean Kathleen McCartney as a research assistant on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, which further opened her eyes to the effects of high - quality early education experiences on children's social, behavioral, and cognitive skills.

People who study education for a living understand what's going on — this is straight out of the standards promulgated by the National Council for the Social Studies, a professional organization that has long prized such «conceptual understanding» over «rote facts and figures.»

Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...

The NCSS acknowledges and encourages scholarly inquiry on significant issues and possibilities for social studies education.

In his now - classic 1961 study The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and Its Impact on Education (excerpts), Coleman identified a series of problems that resulted from the separate society that high school had created for teenagers.

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.

The best documentaries from the Edutopia.org video archives on the most pressing topics in education: project - based learning, technology integration, math and science, social and emotional learning, assessment, school - to - career, integrated studies, teacher development, and more.

George Weber of the Council for Basic Education wrote afterwards that when you consider that these innovative national curricula math and in the social studies «not only didn't deliver what was promised» but instead may well have «even left us worse off than we were before,» there is natural proclivity on the part of the public to say, «We've been conned.»

Such a result is not surprising to those who study the way that people learn and yet project - based learning is as popular as ever; on social media, at conferences and within education departments.

Most recently, I served as a Teacher on Special Assignment for Winona (MN) State University teaching undergraduate education courses, before returning to my home district as a 7th grade Social Studies teacher.

Particularly in urban schools, the pressure from testing has narrowed the curriculum to focus on those subjects on which graduation and accreditation rest — at the expense of art, music, theater, physical education, foreign language, and even science and social studies.

Anthony Pellegrino, PhD, a 10 - year veteran high school social studies teacher, is currently assistant professor of history and social studies education in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University where he teaches methods of teaching history / social studies in the secondary school, foundations of secondary education, and research on teacher eeducation in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University where he teaches methods of teaching history / social studies in the secondary school, foundations of secondary education, and research on teacher eEducation and Human Development at George Mason University where he teaches methods of teaching history / social studies in the secondary school, foundations of secondary education, and research on teacher eeducation, and research on teacher educationeducation.

This one volume brings together in readable, concise language the authoritative research on effective classroom practices in all major disciplines currently taught in elementary and secondary schools: the arts, foreign language, health, language arts, physical education, mathematics, social studies, and science, as well as generic practices that apply across all disciplines.

Teaching social studies to students on all levels of the Dutch education system is what keeps him busy on a daily basis.

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