Discussing Controversial Public Issues in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms: Learning from Skilled Teachers
By D. Hess. 2002
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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science
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In Education
- Anand R. Marri
- E. Washington
- Froso Kambani
- Emma Humphries
- Michalinos Zembylas
- Icy Lee
- Rui (Eric) Yuan
- R. Saunders
In Sociology and Political Science
- Anand R. Marri
- E. Washington
- B. Chi
- Froso Kambani
- Emma Humphries
- Joseph Kahne
- Michalinos Zembylas
- Ellen Middaugh
Citations in the corpus
- Building a Framework for Classroom-Based Multicultural Democratic Education: Learning From Three Skilled Teachers. (2005, background): “…skills helped students to better understand others' viewpoints because such skills can help young people develop the group discourse skills and dispositions for participatory citizenship (Hess, 2002): You know the journal entries I got yesterday and actually, one of them was from Candice.”
- The Teaching of Controversial Issues During Elementary-Level History Instruction: Greek-Cypriot Teachers' Perceptions and Emotions (2012, background): “As one example, there might be discomfort because teachers lack confidence in their own abilities to teach and facilitate discussions on such issues (Hess, 2002, 2004, 2008; Oulton et al., 2004), or because teachers purposely wish to avoid teaching topics that might be controversial in their…”
- BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR CIVIC AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT: THE POTENTIAL OF HIGH-SCHOOL CIVICS COURSES (2006, background): “Our focus on these pedagogical and curricular characteristics grew out of an earlier study (see Kahne & Westheimer, 2003) and align with widely accepted visions of best practice (for example, Billig, 2000; Hahn, 1998; Hess, 1998; McDevitt & Kiousis, 2004; Torney Purta, 2002.”
- A Social Studies Teacher's Sense Making of Controversial Issues Discussions of Race in a Predominantly White, Rural High School Classroom (2011, background): “According to Hess (2008), “the teaching of controversial public issues has come to describe a social studies lesson, unit, course, or curriculum that engages students in learning about issues, analyzing them, deliberating alternative solutions, and often taking and supporting a position on which sol”