...Kevin Russel Magill; Neil Shanks Purpose In this case study, the authors examined how pre-service teachers understood and challenged economic myths at various conceptual levels and within teacher education, professional development and in-service teaching. Interrogated myths included those related...

... around us. Jesús A. Tirado can be contacted at: jat0088@auburn.edu Teacher education Whiteness History education This article seeks to dive into the tensions that Ms. Williams felt as a student-teacher taking on a difficult part of our history in her classroom and how she took...

... but systematic way, teacher education programs can develop PSTs’ conceptual, political, ideological and practical understandings (Blevins et al., 2020). In turn, the more robust knowledge of the practice makes the novice practitioner more resilient in their use of it, especially when paired with school...

...Timothy Monreal; Matthew R. Deroo; Brianne Pitts Purpose The purpose of this article is for three teacher educators to reflect on their use of mapping and mapping-adjacent activities in university courses vis-à-vis the development of their own critical praxis toward spatial justice. The authors...

... with the critical theory learned in the university. Originality/value Examine how a core practice is bolstering the practice-theory connection in teacher education. Strengthening the practice-theory connection implies action, and we assert that one potential solution to improve the marriage of practice...

...Cathy A.R. Brant Purpose This study aims to explore the self-efficacy of social studies teacher education working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) preservice teachers, teaching LGBTQ content in their methods courses, and helping the preservice teachers they teach in those...

... of Indigenous erasure and, instead, produce new meaning. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Teacher education Elementary Social studies Indigenous studies Film in the classroom “Throughout history, there are many ‘forgotten groups...

... in interdisciplinary approaches to solving community and global challenges. How to implement this vision of sustainability education? The purpose of the paper is to report the results of teacher-educators' curriculum and pedagogical approaches to implement the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) C3 framework...

...Bárbara C. Cruz; Cristina M. Viera Purpose In addition to imparting pedagogical content knowledge, teacher educators have the special responsibility to help future practitioners understand critical, contemporary social issues in our ever-globalized world. The purpose of this article is to describe...

... implications Using theorizing about the civil sphere, this paper considers implications for teacher educators. The civil sphere may provide a lens with which to analyze news media and may help preservice teachers adopt practices they view as risky. Originality/value This study aims to extend conversations...

... of work with students that focuses on a local context and uses the disciplines of both science and social studies to support students in making change. In a teacher education setting, Brown Buchanan and Crawford (2015) attempted to improve their elementary social studies methods students' awareness...

... is a case study of the complex instances of reciprocal mentorship within a teacher education program. Objects of analysis included the informal educational experiences from the bi-monthly meetings and student-teaching experiences. Semi-structured interviews, field notes, interpersonal discussion...

... addresses a general concern in teacher education about the need for PSTs to develop skills in interpreting and adapting curriculum materials. Findings suggest that engaging PSTs in discussions about social studies curriculum can help teacher educators identify latent learning goals for their courses...

... argues for the development of the democratic capacities of teacher citizens by creating deliberative and dialogic spaces in social studies field-based teacher education. Findings Four conceptual dimensions of dialogic pedagogy in the supervision of social studies student teachers are explored...

...Alison Asher Dobrick; Laura Fattal Purpose Educators who teach for social justice connect what and how they teach in the classroom directly to humanity’s critical problems. Teacher education at the elementary level must center such themes of social justice in order to prepare today’s teachers...

... for sharing and reflecting upon their experiences provided opportunity to critique neoliberal and race-based public policies, as well as support reflection on the relationships between geography and teaching about social (in)justice in the social studies. Findings inform the work of teacher educators who seek...

... Ruiz de Zuazu, 2016, p. 8). As teacher educators, the authors particularly focused on self-study research, as indicated by Pine (2009), which can be implemented to improve educators’ own teaching to facilitate personal-professional growth. Findings Reflecting on the authors’ experiences...

... of this paper is to share one of many possible ways of “doing race” in elementary social studies teacher education. Design/methodology/approach First, the author proposes the topic of school segregation as a relevant and engaging inroad for elementary students to learn about race and racism...

... were engaged in a study of our own practices in this teacher education program. We were working simultaneously with elementary students, preservice teachers, and classroom teachers. We used ethnographic methods (Corbin and Strauss, 2008) over the course of a three-and-a-half week simulation during...

... addressed. Emerald Publishing Limited 2016 Social Studies Research and Practice www.socstrp.org Integrating Content and Pedagogy: Developing Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Social Studies Teacher Education Michelle D. Cude Ashley Taylor Jaffee Philip David Dillard John Hulsey Alison Sandman James...