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Download full textÖrnek, Gizem Tabaru; Sönmez, Yasemin; Kan, Adnan – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to develop a measurement tool that can determine the attitudes of social studies teachers and classroom teachers towards the use of current events in the social studies course. The scale consists of 23 five-point Likert-type items. The scale form consisting of 40 items prepared by the researchers was administered to a…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Current Events, Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes
Direct linkJoseph Smith – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
This paper offers an analysis of Modern Studies, a school subject unique to Scotland. First taught in the 1960s, Modern Studies was originally conceived as an option for students discontinuing their studies in history and geography. Since then, though, Modern Studies has carved a distinctive curricular niche and has become one of the most popular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Philosophy, Modern History, Social Studies
Thomson, Sue – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2021
The most recent OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey enables educators, policy makers and the wider community to compare Australian students with each other, as well as with their counterparts across the world. PISA measures the extent to which 15-year-old students near the end of compulsory education have acquired the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World Affairs, Climate, Change
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Sixty-eight undergraduate translation students received direct instruction in the features of news headlines and news stories. A week later, they took a test that required them to identify the syntactic and lexical features of a sample of news headlines and news stories, supply deleted word, and substitute punctuation marks, infinitives, and block…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Miranda Lin – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2018
Using current events to help preservice teachers understand the world they live in encourages preservice teachers to learn about global issues. It also encourages them to develop skills in analytical thinking and reflective judgment by reading and discussing complex real-life scenarios. A semester-long pen-pal project was crafted to help…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Current Events, Teaching Methods, Cultural Pluralism
Günel, Elvan; Pehlivan, Aysegül – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2015
As a result of scientific and technological developments in today's world, global education has started to take its place in the educational systems throughout the world and become more significant in recent years. Since global education has multiple effects on societies, it is also crucial in helping students to become informed, active, and…
Descriptors: Global Education, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Textbook Evaluation
Milson, Andrew J.; Kerski, Joseph J. – Social Education, 2012
The recent National Assessment of Educational Progress in Geography revealed that few American students can identify locations of current events, the scale of those events, or why those events are important. Social studies educators have found that by incorporating emerging technologies into their classroom--such as Geographic Information Systems…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, National Competency Tests, Current Events, Geographic Information Systems
Claes, Ellen; Quintelier, Ellen – Educational Research, 2009
Background: More than 52 countries make use of the "Newspapers in Education" programme. In the last 10 years, in Belgium, an application of the international programme Newspapers in Education has become a well-known way of stimulating adolescents to explore the political realm and challenge the way they think about and participate in…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Political Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Young Adults
Ottewill, Roger; Chandler, Jim; Long, Peter; Wall, Ann – LATISS: Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, 2005
Educators at the University of Southampton and Sheffield Hallam University have used an online questionnaire and follow up focus groups to establish how much students embarking on courses in business, management and politics know about current affairs and to explore some of the pedagogic and procedural issues associated with research of this kind.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Politics, Current Events, Knowledge Level
