This article outlines research directions for global citizenship education, by emphasizing the
centrality of democratic goals for schools in the 21 st century. Despite a significant shift in …

Educators today must be able to respond to the needs of an increasingly diverse student
body and to teach all students the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for civic …

Learn how to enact justice-oriented pedagogy and foster students' critical engagement in
today's history classroom. Over the past 2 decades, various scholars have rightfully argued …

This chapter explores how world history is currently conceived of and taught in countries
around the world. We reviewed literature related to world or global history curriculum …

This empirical study uses content and frequency analysis to investigate how the Big History
Project (BHP) online curriculum represents different racial and cultural groups within its units …

National identities have been challenged by European integration, globalisation, migration
and regionalisation. More recently, there has been a resurgence of nationhood and national …

ABSTRACT Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results have become
synonymous with quality benchmarking, determining standards and comparing performance …

This study is an exploration of how US middle school students interacted with different topics
in world history, and how their specific understandings of topics were connected to both …

In the context of modern globalising forces, this study attempts to reframe the concept of
citizenship education within the social studies curriculum. Utilising a qualitative study …

IN RECENT YEARS, disciplinary literacy has offered a promising approach to history
instruction in K-12 schools. 1 Proponents of disciplinary literacy argue that to truly …