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Voices from the Past: M.W. Keatinge: A British Approach to Teaching History through Sources
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On Political Cartoons and Social Studies Textbooks: Visual Analogies, Intertextuality, and Cultural Memory
No full textPolitical cartoons are animated through visual analogies that imply a likeness between the event portrayed in the image and the issue on which the cartoonist is making comment. Although many kinds of analogies can be used, meanings arise as the viewer is able to recognize and interpret them. This becomes difficult, though, when a cartoon\u27s analogy is drawn from contemporary or historical events, plays on literary allusions, or uses past cultural knowledge not readily available to a viewer. The resultant intertextuality assumes an ideal viewer and a narrow cultural memory that have consequences for who is included in, and excluded from, the ongoing editorial conversation. Issues flowing from this assumed memory are discussed in relation to social studies textbooks used in British Columbia
Robert Adamoski, Dorothy E. Chunn, and Robert Menzies (eds). 2002. Contesting Canadian Citizenship: Historical Readings.
No full textGlobalization and Peace Education
No full textToday, it would be difficult to find a community that has been unaffected by globalization, yet its effects are still unknown to many people. This paper is an attempt to bring the subject to the awareness of educators while particularly focusing on those in the Philippines. It is ironic that globalization on one hand has incited people all over the world to protest against it; on the other hand, it has drawn the world closer together. Various contradicting effects of globalization on nations all over the world, especially on the economic sphere, are presented in the early part of the paper, and then the specific impacts in the Philippine context are discussed. The latter portion of the paper discusses an attempt at reconciliation of the conflicts created because of globalization through global education or peace education
Teaching Human Rights in Elementary Classrooms: A Literary Approach
No full textThis article presents elementary social studies teachers with examples of children\u27s literature that can be used to teach about children\u27s rights as they were declared at the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Five books are summarized for younger audiences, and four are reviewed for older readers. The author also describes a recent informational book on fifteen children\u27s rights appropriate for all elementary classrooms
The Pressure Cooker in Education: Standardized Assessment and High-Stakes
No full textWhile assessment has been a part of education for a long time, the current increased emphasis on standardization of curriculum and assessment is unique. The author surveys varying perspectives on assessment, considers the role assessment plays vis--vis social studies and then evaluates arguments on both sides of the debate in light of the current high-stakes testing environment which is becoming an integral component of North American education. Finally, a discussion of the implications of increased assessment, and particularly that of high-stakes testing within the social studies curricula reveals that significant portions of important social studies outcomes are minimalized or ignored because of the emphasis on standardized testing