In bilingual education 'scaffolding'is used to describe support that allows learners to engage
with content in a language they only partially know. Much remains unclear about the ways …

Looking in Classrooms uses educational, psychological, and social science theories and
classroom-based research to teach future classroom teachers about the complexities and …

The practice of disciplined inquiry plays a central role in competent democratic citizenship.
This chapter focuses on efforts to cultivate disciplined inquiry in social studies classrooms …

History was once prized in public education but, over time, has slowly fallen to the fringes of
the curriculum. Many institutions have struggled to solicit and maintain student interest in …

The authors review studies that utilize a range of research methodologies. After explaining
how studies were selected for inclusion, the authors introduce three conceptual approaches …

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 …

While the use of inquiry-based instruction has been encouraged for many years, it continues
to be the exception rather than the norm. The publication of the College, Career, and Civic …

Literacy research has investigated disciplinary literacy for over a decade. The focus on
disciplines as cultures of distinct literacy practice has been integrated into national …

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 …

This qualitative case study explored preservice teachers'(PSTs) beliefs about disciplinary
literacy as they engaged in a blog project with middle-school students to discuss historical …