| Title |
Okleberry, Leigh; Bascom, Cindy_MED_2019 |
| Alternative Title |
BRINGING VOICES FROM THE PAST INTO THE MODERN CLASSROOM: WHAT WOULD THEY TELL US NOW? |
| Creator |
Okleberry, Leigh and Bascom, Cindy |
| Collection Name |
Master of Education |
| Description |
History education has gone through many transitions. Even before the retelling of The Iliad and The Odyssey and the use of early story telling writing through hieroglyphs, history was shared through oral traditions to teach origin stories, morality, and culture. Later, as mass written communication became more accessible, these same stories found themselves on the pages of books for larger audiences and as historical knowledge. Artifacts such as letters, journals, diaries, accounting, business transactions, newspapers, and magazines became historical records and represented important events in both the public and private sectors. History has traditionally been taught in modern times by educating students about events, dates, and key figures. Traditionally, educators who teach social studies to young students, elementary age, do so with a textbook as their only recourse. Any observation of facts, filtered through personal experience, was considered bias (Romanowski, 1996). As observed by Passe (2006) there has been a current movement towards using the program Open Court which is "a reading series that encourages strict conformance with the teacher's manual" (p. 191). Wade (2002), supports this claim; "Research has documented that 75 to 90 percent of social studies instructional time is based on the textbook" (p. 238). Teachers often have not been adequately trained in the social studies curriculum (Call, 2019). In fact, Passe (2006) states that "Some teachers feel uncomfortable with content and skills that were inadequately addressed in their schooling or perhaps never developed any interest in the subject" (p. 190). With a lack of deep understanding of history, elementary teachers may rely too heavily on the textbook. |
| Subject |
Education; Education--Study and teaching; Education--Evaluation |
| Keywords |
History education |
| Digital Publisher |
Stewart Library, Weber State University |
| Date |
2019 |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
The author has granted Weber State University Archives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce their theses, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. The author retains all other rights. |
| Source |
University Archives Electronic Records; Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Stewart Library, Weber State University |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6bjkjr7 |
| Setname |
wsu_smt |
| ID |
96779 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6bjkjr7 |
