Journal Archives
Past Issues of Social Studies Journal
Below, past issues of Social Studies Journal are organized by year.
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Table of Contents:
Teaching Across the Diasporas: Making Room for Blackness
Tianna Dowie-Chin and Sacha Gittens
Avoiding the Single Story: Attempting to Teach Indigenous Literature and History
Kat Hoffman and Paul McCormick
Incorporating Moot Courts into the Social Studies Classroom
Jack T. Port
They Didn’t Teach Me About This in College
Ally Durney
How I Ended up Writing about History’s Most Intractable Conflict
Scott Alan Metzger
Teaching the Israel/Palestine Conflict through Alternate Framing
Scott Alan Metzger
Eric Groce, Margaret Gregor, and Robin Groce
The Future of Social Studies Education: AI and the Human Touch
Brian Stevens
Dialogue to Practice: Incorporating Civil Society in Elementary Social Studies Methods Courses
Sara B. Demoiny & Christine A. Woyshner
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Table of Contents:
Prologue
Jessica Schocker
Windows and Mirrors
Walter C. Parker
Asking Permission: Creating Meaningful Relationships with the Earth
Margaret Nell Becker
Fifth Grade Action for Recess
Madeleine Castellanos and Jennifer Cody
What’s Appropriate, and What’s Appropriation? Teaching Indigenous History & Literature in a Middle School Classroom
Kat Hoffman and Paul McCormick
Anchoring Social Studies in My ELA Classroom
Colleen Hackendahl
Integrating Critical Conversations Into the Elementary Classroom
Kelly Whalen
The “Free” State of Florida
Chantelle Grace
Beginning Again: Schooling Transformation in Changing Times
Kim Mowery
A Personal Interrogation of Choice
Casey Cook
A Letter
Jacqueline J. Kwun
Epilogue
Mark Kissling
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Table of Contents:
“Difficult” History is Simply History: It Is Time to Move Beyond the Binary
Brittany L. Jones
Rifts in Representation: A Linguistic Analysis of STEM Identity in a 9th Grade World History Textbook
Kanushri Wadhwa & Edgar Díaz
Towards a More Hopeful Future Through Critical Civic Education
Casey Holmes
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Teaching social studies with a conscience: A two-month conversation with Bill Bigelow
Mark T. Kissling
Winter WONDERland: Finding humanity within science standards
Krishawna Goins
Linking the global to local sustainability challenges: Deliberating the Permian highway pipeline controversy in Texas
Yun-Wen Chan and Theresa Alviar-Martin
Sally Hemings of Monticello: Opening up the Thomas Jefferson narrative
Jared Aumen
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Table of Contents:
ARTICLES
Editorial: What social studies teachers need to know about the CRT debate
Jessica B. Schocker and Justin M. De Senso
“Proving a point:” Understanding students’ use of historical agency and the intentionality of the past
Lauren Colley
Bringing students into professional development
Lightning Jay, Andrew O. del Calvo, Jenni Conrad, Andrew J. Schiera, Timothy Patterson, and Abby Reisman
Bullying, divorce, death, and poverty: Social studies preservice teacher candidates’ experiences in presenting tender
topics through read alouds to children
Erin M. Casey, Shaylee Chester, Emily Spivey, and Kathryn VanDehei
BOOK REVIEWS
Science education for citizenship: A book review
Christine Woyshner
The power and danger of a photograph: A book review
Jennifer Burke
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Table of Contents:
Teaching the economics of race and racism: Slavery, the cotton industry, and the Panic of 1837
Jill Beccaris-Pescatore
Exploring master and counter narratives of economics through simulations with elementary teacher candidates
Jennifer Gallagher and Christina Tschida
A critical look at Studies Weekly’s Pennsylvania kindergarten materials
Stephanie Schroeder and Mark T. Kissling
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Table of Contents:
How shall we proceed?: Teaching about and during a global pandemic
Jessica B. Schocker and Sarah B. Brooks
Using inquiry questions for social studies unit design
Scott Alan Metzger
“Pushing past the margins” with micro-content analysis: A tool to identify gender-bias in textbooks
Erica M. Southworth, Rebekah Cleaver, and Haley Herbst
Time’s up: Considering gender and social justice in the social studies
Brandon J. Haas and Tracy R. Tilotta
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Table of Contents:
Engaging two-spirit knowledge as a means to deconstruct the gender binary
J.B. Mayo, Jr.
Climate change and Pennsylvania social studies teaching
Mark T. Kissling and Jonathan T. Bell
Is recycling sustainable?: An ecological inquiry
R. Zackary Seitz and Daniel G. Krutka
What should I teach?: Supporting social studies teacher candidates’ subject matter choices
Rebecca G. W. Mueller, Lauren M. Colley, and Emma S. Thacker
Teaching DACA with documentary film
Jeremy Hilburn, Lisa Brown Buchanan, and Wayne Journell
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Civic life in the neighborhood: Leveraging historical context to teach injustice in the elementary grades
Anne-Lise Halvorsen, Maribel Santiago, Eliana Castro, and Alyssa Whitford
Teaching and learning with indigenous-made films in social studies education
Sarah B. Shear
Reading and watching like a historian: Using documents to teach Sisters in Freedom
Amy Cohen
Thoughtful social studies integration: It’s possible!
Sara B. Demoiny and Stacie L. Finley
National history day: An opportunity for service-learning in social studies teacher education
Jennifer Cutsforth Kaschak
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Teaching gender and social studies in the #MeToo era
Margaret Smith Crocco
For the love of history: Rekindling imagination in history classrooms
James Schul
Teaching in these politically divisive times
Marc Brasof
Teaching students how to validate sources in a politically divisive climate
Vicky Lynch, Marcus Norville, Krystina Whitehouse, and Marc Brasof
Teaching abortion: Talking about politically divisive topics in the classroom
Heather Hingston, Katherine Lins, Danielle Marcus, Carolann Ortiz, La Queta Sturns-Brew, and Marc Brasof
What exactly is propaganda, anyway?
Thomas Fallace
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Reading as a tool of thinking and learning in the social studies
Tina L. Heafner
“I stood there wondering if”: Teaching the complexity of patriotism in the early elementary grades
Mark T. Kissling
Elementary social studies pedagogical content knowledge: A framework for teaching and learning
Corey R. Sell
“We are the best killers”: A critical analysis of textbook depictions of the civil war
Mark Pearcy
Expanding historical narratives: Using SOURCES to assess the successes and failures of Operation Anthropoid
Keyana Terry and Scott Waring
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Table of Contents:
Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Trump: Teaching Social Studies in a Post-Truth Era
Wayne Journell
Teaching Against Islamophobia in the Social Studies Classroom
Sarah Brooks
Contact Zone Learning and International Teacher Professional Development
Timothy Patterson
Connecting to Social Studies: Crafting Instruction that is Authentic and Engaging for 21st Century Learners
Jason T. Hilton, Mary Karavis, & Christopher Miller
Challenge and Opportunity: Teaching World War I during the Centennial
Lisa K. Pennington & Amanda Williams
Cultivating Pre-Service Teachers’ Interest and Confidence in Elementary Social Studies Teaching
Heather Leaman, Maureen Sablich, & Nicole Whitney
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Introduction, teaching African American history
Christine Woyshner
An abolition framework: Debating slavery by moving beyond the question of race
Marc Brasof
The civil rights era Philly style: Using primary sources to "document race"
Amy Cohen
Teaching with film: Philadelphia and Black history
Amy Cohen
Northern African American perspective of and involvement in the Civil War: Introductory lesson
David A. Hauschild II
Teaching history through discovery mapping
Jeffrey Michaelangelella Evans
Epilogue, Black history is more than skin color
LaGarrett J. King
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Table of Contents:
Teaching Social Studies and Literacy through Toothpick World
Jessica Schocker
Dual Language Children’s Books in the Elementary Classroom: Social Studies and Literacy Connections
Heather Leaman, Lacey Christman, Alicia Penny, Seiko Yamazaki
Considering Literacy: Responses from a Secondary Social Studies Methods Course
Jennifer Cutsforth
Connecting Teacher Education to the Elementary Classroom: Integrating Literacy & Social Studies with a Field Trip
Linda Plevyak and Todd Williford
A Hands-On Approach to Civic Literacy
Marc Brasof
The Constitution Happened Here Project
Michael Simzak
Around the World with Marian Anderson: The Power and Magic of Multicultural Storytelling
Sydelle Pearl
Project-Based Learning and Self-Regulatory Skills in Social Studies Curricula
Darla Gerlach
It Happened in Pittsburgh: A Conference Opportunity Puts Theory into Practice
Robert S. Gardner and Judith A. Gardner
PCSS for Pre-Service Teachers
Jennifer Licwinko, Jessica Ashworth, Clare Dillard, Jessica B. Schocker
Teaching Literacy and Social Studies through the Use of a Narrative
Margit McGuire and Bronwyn Cole
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Contemporary Issues of Social Studies
Stephanie Franklin and Stephanie Serriere
Teaching American History Using Protest Music
Meredith Holladay, Louis Rodriquez, and Maria Sanelli
The Object Lesson of Pestalozzi and Its Application To Social Studies
Mark Mraz
Increasing Classroom Test Reliability of Selected Response Tests in Social Sciences: Writing Good Test Questions
Patricia Johnston and Karen Wilkins