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Nadia Behizadeh; Sarah Bonner; Katie Burnett; Joanne Baird Giordano; Mara Lee Grayson; Jarvais Jackson; Emily Meixner – National Council of Teachers of English, 2024
"Divisive concepts" legislation, which seeks to restrict teaching about topics like race, gender, and sexuality, for example, has proliferated across the United States, creating confusion and challenges for students, teachers, and teacher educators who want to include discussion of complex topics in their classrooms (Ervin & Gannon,…
Descriptors: English Teachers, English Instruction, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Responsibility
Connor, Thomas – James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2019
In 2017, the North Carolina legislature passed House Bill 527 (now State Law 2017-196) in order to foster free, open inquiry in the state's colleges and universities. One of the provisions ordered the University of North Carolina (UNC) system Board of Governors to produce an annual report on two major categories of intellectual freedom: free…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Universities, College Faculty, College Students
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Wolfford, David – Social Education, 2012
Over the last 20 years, independent filmmakers have produced insightful documentaries of high profile political campaigns with behind-the-scenes footage. These documentaries offer inside looks and unique perspectives on electoral politics. This campaign season, consider "The War Room"; "A Perfect Candidate"; "Journeys With George;" "Chisholm '72";…
Descriptors: Political Campaigns, Social Studies, Political Science, Documentaries
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Bredhoff, Stacey; Potter, Lee Ann – Social Education, 2012
On Sunday, October 14, 1962, an American U-2 aircraft, flying a photographic reconnaissance mission over Cuba, took 928 images (one is included with this article). The next day, analysts at the National Photographic Interpretation Center concluded that the photographs showed evidence of Soviet missile site construction in Cuba and conveyed their…
Descriptors: United States History, Foreign Countries, Photography, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Stoilescu, Dorian – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
This in-progress study presents aspects of using educational technology in teaching mathematics education. More exactly, it explores ways in which educational technology might be used in order to improve teachers' cultural awareness and social activism. A rationale for a qualitative research study is presented by using multiple methods combining…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Mathematics Teachers, Activism, Mathematics Education
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2009
The "International Society for the Social Studies Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. It contains the following papers: (1) Teacher Perceptions of Authentic Pedagogy: A Case Study of Professional Development in an African American High School's…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Conferences (Gatherings), Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies