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Original Political Cartoon Methodology and Adaptations
Social Studies Research and Practice (2012)
  • John H. Bickford, III, Eastern Illinois University
Abstract

This paper is grounded on the premise that effective educators base lessons on rich and intriguing content which is relevant to students’ lives, implement the content using engaging and age-appropriate methodology, and measure students’ learning through authentic assessments. In order to support practicing teachers’ effective implementation of best practice methodology and assessment, educational researchers investigate the interconnections between content, methodology, and assessment. As technology facilitates teaching methodologies and learning assessments, meaningful activities such as students’ original political cartooning should be examined, detailed, and adapted. In this article, the methodological suggestions for, and adaptations of, students’ original political cartoons guide educators who seek to enable students’ creative and critical expressions of understandings about complex historical content.

Keywords
  • Social studies methodology,
  • authentic assessments,
  • concept maps,
  • substitution list,
  • critical thinking
Publication Date
Summer 2012
Publisher Statement
This research was originally published in the open access journal Social Studies Research and Practice: http://socstrp.org/
Citation Information
John H. Bickford. "Original Political Cartoon Methodology and Adaptations" Social Studies Research and Practice Vol. 7 Iss. 2 (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john_bickford/4/