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EDCI 5850: Instructional Methodologies in Language Arts and Social Studies

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Required Readings for EDCI 5850

Blevins, B., & LeCompte, K. (2015). I am engaged: Action civics in four steps. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 27(4), 23–26.

Busey, C. L., & Walker, I. (2017). A dream and a bus: Black critical patriotism in elementary social studies standards. Theory & Research in Social Education, 45(4), 456–488.

Dunbar, E. A., & Van Cleve, K. (2019). Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s courageous slave who dared to run away (Young readers edition). Aladdin.

Fantozzi, V., Cottino, E., & Gennarelli, C. (2013). Mapping their place: Preschoolers explore space, place, and literacy. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 26(1), 5–10.

Gallagher, S., & Hodges, S. (2010). Let's Teach Students to Prioritize: Reconsidering “Wants” and “Needs”. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 22(3), 14-16.

Gruenewald, D. A. (2003). Foundations of place: A multidisciplinary framework for place-conscious education. American Educational Research Journal, 40(3), 619–654. https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312040003619

Hagan, H., & Simpson, T. (2016). Revisiting the power of integrated learning centers. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 28(4), 13–16.

Humphries, M., & Ward, A. (2022). Recognize, ask, do: Teaching young children to act on injustice by “ReADing” the world. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 35(2), 26–31.

Kim, E., & Faulkner, A. (2022). “Not your model minority”: An inquiry on the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 34(3), 14–18.

Loewen J. W. (2018). Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (2018 edition). Proquest Ebook Central.

National Council for Social Studies. (2009). Powerful and purposeful teaching and learning in elementary school social studies. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 22(1), 31–3

Reese, D. (2018). Critical Indigenous Literacies: Selecting and Using Children's Books about Indigenous Peoples. Language Arts, 95(6), 389-393.

Rodriguez, N. N., & Swalwell, K. (2021). Social Studies for a Better World: An Anti-Oppressive Approach for Elementary Educators (Equity and Social Justice in Education). WW Norton & Company.

Salinas, C, Blevins, B & Sullivan, C (2012). Critical Historical Thinking: When Official Narratives Collide With Other Narratives. Multicultural Perspectives, 14:1, 18-27.

Savage, A., Wesson, S. (2016). "What Makes You Think That?" Kindergarten Students Analyze Primary Sources from the Library of Congress. Social studies and the young learner, 2016-09-09, Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 27 – 32

Schmidt, S. (2011). Who lives on the other side of that boundary: A model of geographic thinking. Social Education, 75(5), 250–255.

Shear, S., & Sabzalian, L. (2018). Affirming Indigenous sovereignty: A civics inquiry. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 31(1), 12–18.

Shifflet, R., & Hunt, C. S. (2019). “All teaching should be integration”: Social studies literacy integration in preservice teacher education. Social Studies, 110(6), 237–250.

Sonu, D., & Herold, E. (2023). Meeting individual needs: Teaching first graders about resource allocation and equity-versus-equality in an integrated co-teaching classroom. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 36(1), 3–8.

Sonu, D., & Zaino, K. (2023). Breaking light on economic divide: How elementary school teachers locate class inequality in teaching and schools. Teachers College Record, 125(4), 39–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681231177817

Stefoff, R., & Takaki, R. T. (2012). A different mirror for young people: A history of multicultural America. Seven Stories Press.

Stoddard, J. (2022). Difficult knowledge and history education. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 30(3), 383–400.

Swan, K., Lee, J., & Grant, S. G. (2023). The art of the bluebrint: Inquiry in the classroom. National Council for the Social Studies.

Takaki, R. (2012). A different mirror for young people: A history of multicultural America. Seven Stories Press.

Tschida, C. M., & Buchanan, L. B. (2017). What makes a family? Sharing multiple perspectives through an inclusive text set. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 30(2), 3-7.

van Kessel, C. (2022). Deindividualizing evil and good in social education. Social Education, 86(5), 347–354

Wineburg, S. (2010). Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts. Phi Delta Kappan, 92(4), 81–94.

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