... challenge student thinking about women’s historical roles. Here, I discuss research regarding feminist perspectives, the representation of women in social studies texts and the potential of literacy to challenge gender norms. RQ2. To what extent can elementary students’ preconceptions...

...Jennifer Johnson Purpose The emphasis on primary sources and disciplinary literacy skills in not only the Common Core State Standards, but other national curricula (i.e. College Board exams and the NCSS C3 Framework) requires that teachers continue to find ways to integrate these skills...

... into what some view as one of the most inhumane events in history and thus shift the paradigm for high school students. Holocaust genocide alternative texts pedagogy history literacy Emerald Publishing Limited 2016 Social Studies Research and Practice www.socstrp.org Representation...

..., oppressed, Paulo Freire, education, literacy, Brazil, Chile, writing Introduction While it has been more than 40 years since the publication of Paulo Freire s classic work Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire, 1990a), the text remains popular and is recommended reading in university classes around the world...