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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

To support this claim, preservice teachers might bring up the inherently political components of language preservation projects, food sovereignty, linguistic justice, abolitionist teaching, and/or culturally relevant pedagogy (Nickman, 2009; NK 360, 2018; Lyiscott, 2014; Baker Bell, 2020; Love, 2019; Ladson Billings, 1995; 2014).

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

Geogramblings

Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’.

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

It’s baked into aspects of our culture.” While education levels are not related to conservative beliefs about economic policy, they are related to conservative beliefs about the value of cultural diversity. A solution for America’s political crisis isn’t possible if citizens don’t have a firm grasp of what’s causing the problem.

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OPINION: Our schools must figure out a way to teach this presidential election

The Hechinger Report

In 2020, teaching about the presidential election feels more like teaching about the Second Amendment or the abortion rights debate. Schools are afraid of dividing and triggering their students amid the fraught, frenzied, hyperpartisan, superpolarized and downright ugly political culture of our country right now.

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College Uncovered: DEI Backlash

The Hechinger Report

College campuses have become battlegrounds in America’s culture wars, with diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the center of the debate. So, Phillip, what goes through your head when we talk about this controversial topic? Off campus, voters are questioning whether taxpayer dollars should fund DEI programs at all.