At the center of a marginalizing curriculum are deliberate attempts to diminish narratives that reflect diverse communities and the intrinsic relationship between culture and citizenship. Diverse c...

Schools are tasked with preparing children to become engaged citizens, and yet children already act civically every day. To see how young children in preschool settings do civic action (i.e. acting...

This article seeks to describe a critical historical inquiry (CHI) based on a systematic review of articles reporting on empirical field studies published between 2000 and 2022. During that period,...

This study examines the demographic imperative in the field of K-12 social studies education, focusing on the composition of social studies teachers in the United States over 15 years (2007–2021). ...

TRSE is committed to mentoring the next generation of social studies scholars by involving them in the manuscript review process. TRSE has a unique mentorship program, started by Dr. Wayne Journell, w...

Dear Colleagues, Today marks my last day as editor of Theory & Research in Social Education. It has been an honor to be able to serve the field in this role for the past nine years (plus two addition...

This study investigates the affective strategies employed by Greek-Cypriot teachers when engaging with the emotionally charged history of the 1974 war—commonly referred to in the Greek-Cypriot comm...

This qualitative study describes how seven middle-level and secondary social studies teachers engaged in pedagogical reasoning and decision-making in anticipation of students’ emotional potentialit...

Classroom dialogue on controversial issues in post-conflict contexts is widely advocated but very difficult to achieve. This article examines a gradient of controversy approach to deliberative dial...

The Inquiry Design Model (IDM) is a lesson-planning framework designed to implement inquiry for social studies educators as conceived in the C3 Framework. For this study, we drew on scholarly liter...

Drawing on surveys, classroom observations, student work, focus groups, and teacher interviews, this case study explores features and impacts of a novel civics curriculum centering empathic listeni...

Drawing on a range of critical theories (e.g. Critical Toponomy, Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Spatial Analysis), this article serves to advance a theory of “ToponomiCrit,” which embodies res...

This study examines Q pedagogy—an innovative approach to discussion-based teaching—to promote discussion in a graduate-level social studies research course. The study explores how graduate-level te...

The Nakba, which means “the catastrophe” in Arabic, is the most controversial historical topic in Israeli history education. Despite the Nakba’s significance to the history of Israel and the ongoin...

Websites that provide accounts of local history represent powerful curricular possibilities for K-12 history teachers and those of all ages who engage with historical narratives centered on place. ...

This article charts the experiences that emerged as part of a two-day workshop in Montgomery, Alabama at the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) Legacy Sites that took place in the spring of 2023. In ...

In the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, social studies education has remained startlingly silent on the topic of abortion. In this design-based research study, we present a qualitative analy...

Volume 53, Issue 1 of Theory & Research in Social Education

Award Purposes The Exemplary Research Award recognizes scholarship with the potential to significantly impact and/or transform social studies education research and practice.

This study reports on a content and discourse analysis of the Digital Inquiry Group’s world history Reading Like a Historian educative curriculum. History curriculum has a powerful influence on how...

In episode 211, Dan and Michael chat with Jason Endacott about his article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Arts integrated historical empathy: Preservice teachers’ engageme…

This article introduces the Social Studies Discourse Instrument (SSDI), a novel observation tool for capturing whole-class discussions in social studies. This tool assesses three domains of classro...

In this article, we argue that social studies education research has yet to capture the practicality of social transformation as outlined by critical pedagogy. We use neo-Vygotskian scholarship to ...

While states, educational agencies, and colleges of education across the United States seek to recruit more Black social studies teachers, the authors of this study—two former social studies teache...

While states, educational agencies, and colleges of education across the United States seek to recruit more Black social studies teachers, the authors of this study—two former social studies teache...

This conceptual article deconstructs (mis/dis)information via social media as a philosophical problematic: A matrix that consists of distinct but intertwined problems. Social media education is a p...

This article investigates students’ engagement with a historical inquiry into redlining—a practice of discriminatory lending that originated in the 1930s as part of the New Deal. The authors develo...

Teaching about religion in public schools is a complicated and nuanced topic. Though religious illiteracy has been named as a widespread concern throughout the United States, little research has be...

While recognized as a foundational practice, social studies educators struggle with enacting inquiry-based instruction. With critical inquiries that examine sociopolitical and other injustices, dev...

This mixed-methods analysis explores the self-reported instructional practices of elementary social studies teachers through a statewide survey of Michigan elementary teachers and administrators. W...

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We employed qualitative research methods to examine student learning in context during a teacher’s unit on 1920s-Great Depression in an 11th grade United States & Virginia History class in a standa...

Published in Theory & Research in Social Education (Vol. 52, No. 4, 2024)

Situated between Drag Story Hour and “don’t say gay” legislation, this article examines how history teachers mediate gender and sexuality content. This qualitative study examined how seven secondar...

This review of research investigates the empirical scholarship on difficult knowledges and difficult histories within the field of social studies education. Guided by critical conceptualizations of...

Volume 52, Issue 4 of Theory & Research in Social Education

In episode 210, Dan and Michael chat with Bretton Varga and Erin Adams about their article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Theorizing mimesis across social studies contexts…

Explore the article collection: Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education. Published in Theory & Research in Social Education.

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