An Elementary Social Studies Teacher's Quest to Develop Democratic Citizens: The Boundaries of Ambitious Teaching
| Autor: | Tina L. Heafner, Jessica Norwood |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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05 social sciences Democratic citizenship 050401 social sciences methods 050301 education Citizen journalism Social studies Democracy Education Teaching philosophy 0504 sociology Political science Pedagogy Accountability ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION School environment 0503 education Administration (government) Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Social Studies Research. 43:187-198 |
| ISSN: | 0885-985X 2352-2798 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jssr.2018.07.001 |
| Popis: | Developing informed and participatory citizens is one of the aims of the National Council for the Social Studies’ (NCSS) vision of civic education. However, when aspiring to meet the call for meaningful civic education, teachers may find themselves at odds with other goals of accountability-driven school environments, creating contexts in which ambitious teaching becomes the answer to instilling democratic citizenship in students. The purpose of this study is to document the experience of such an ambitious teacher, chronicling a fifth-grade teacher's quest for ensuring her students’ access to civic education in an urban, highly-structured, and accountability-based school environment. Through describing her teaching philosophy, instructional strategies, and experience with administration hampering her ability to promote civic education, a pattern of ambitious social studies teaching commensurate with existing literature is supported and questioned. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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