Articles

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Engaging Public Issues through Dialogue Journals: Preservice Teachers and Elementary Students Read and Respond (with Sylvia Read), The Reading Teacher (2011)

In a qualitative study, 50 pre-service teachers were partnered with 50 elementary students to write...

 

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Learning How to Respond to Current Events: Partner Journals between U.S. Preservice Teachers and Children (with D. Dobson), Teaching and Teacher Education (2010)

The representation of a variety of stakeholders' voices during the deliberation of public issues is...

 

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A New Childhood Social Studies Curriculum for a New Generation of Citizenship (with C. Saavedra), The International Journal of Children's Rights (2009)

Traditional concepts of civic education in the United States and the expanding horizons curriculum scope...

 

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Cognitive Praxis in Today's "International Education" Movement: A Case Study of Intents and Affinities (with W. C. Parker), Theory and Research in Social Education (2009)

We report a qualitative case study of interpretive activity inside the current wave of the...

 

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Identifying Soft Democratic Education: Uncovering the Range of Civic and Cultural Choices in Instructional Materials, The Social Studies (2009)

Although student deliberation of public issues is recognized as a vital component of democratic education,...

 

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Deciding What Is a Controversial Issue: A Case Study of Social Studies Curriculum Controversy, Theory and Research in Social Education (2008)

Frame analysis was used to examine how competing stakeholders framed a sixth grade curriculum controversy...

 

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Review of the Book, How Children Become Moral Selves: Building Character and Promoting Citizenship in Education, Education Review (2008)

When I first read the title of Russell’s book, How children become moral selves: Building...

 

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Deliberating Immigration Policy: Locating Instructional Materials within Global and Multicultural Perspectives, Theory and Research in Social Education (2007)

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. Numerous theorists have identified...

 

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Prejudice Reduction through Multicultural Education: Connecting Multiple Literatures, Social Studies Research and Practice (2007)

Banks (1994) names prejudice reduction as one of five dimensions of multicultural education. Although children...

 

Contributions to Books

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Transnational Childhoods: Immigration and Bodies That Challenge Boundaries (with C. Saavedra), Diversity, Multiplicity and Childhoods (2010)