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Historical Inquiry: Who Has The Power? Using Film To Introduce Students To Medieval Social Class Structures, Megan Todd, Janie Hubbard

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

Using film in the classroom to teach history has long been endorsed as an effective pedagogical method when the lessons’ purposes and goals are clearly supported with facts. This article, which includes a National Council for the Social Studies C3 inquiry-based lesson plan, is targeted for educators who aspire to help students understand basic European Medieval history and engage in critical thinking. Medieval history is listed in many U.S. state curriculum standards and international teaching benchmarks; thus, this lesson contributes a teaching-ready source, particularly to introduce students to historical concepts, geographies, and politics (i.e., power structures). Clips from A Knight’s …

Analysis Of The Content Of The History Book For The Fifth Grade Literary According To The Depth Of Knowledge Levels, Huda Hadi Khames, Nidhal M. Rsheed Al-Azawi

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The objective of the research is to identify the analysis of the book of the scheduled date of the fifth literary aim according to the levels of depth of knowledge for the academic year 2019-2020. To achieve the goal of the research, the researchers prepared a list of levels of depth of knowledge that included four levels: the level of remembrance and reproduction, Level of application of concepts and skills, level of strategic thinking, level of extended thinking, Research Sample of Scientific Material ", the analytical descriptive curriculum was used in the book The Scheduled Date of the Fifth Literary …

The Effect Of The S.N.I.P.S Strategy On The Achievement Of Fourth-Grade Literary Students In The Subject Of History And The Development Of Their Probing Thinking, Kamal S. Godaeib

Journal of STEPS for Humanities and Social Sciences

The current research aims to identify (the effect of the S.N.I.P.S strategy on the achievement of fourth-grade literary students in history and the development of their probing thinking). To ensure that the research objective is achieved, the researcher formulated the following null hypotheses:

The researcher followed the experimental design with two equal groups, experimental and control, with a pre and posttest. The researckh community consisted of fourth grade students from secondary schools for boys for morning study and affiliated with the General Directorate of Education in Salah al-Din Governorate - Tikrit Education Department - for the academic year (2021-2022) The …

Trauma, History, And Terror In The Poetry Of Yusef Komunyakaa And Sinan Antoon, Reema Binghadeer

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her comparative study “Trauma, History, and Terror in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Sinan Antoon,” Reema Binghadeer considers the work of the African American poet Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1941) and the (Arab) Iraqi poet Sinan Antoon (b. 1967) through the lens of trauma theory of some notable theorists including; Freud, Cathy Caruth, Jean Laplanche, Roger Luckhurst, and Shoshana Felman—have negotiated in this field. The article explores the literary manifestations of trauma in two distinct historical periods and geographical settings to show the specificities of each prototype and how the historical-cultural significance and textual meanings of trauma have intertwined …

Book Review: Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, And History By Stephen Chrisomalis, Milton Rosa, Daniel Clark Orey

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This review of Reckonings shares our thoughts on the diverse insights presented by Stephen Chrisomalis’s version of the history of numerical notation. Chrisomalis suggests that members of distinct cultural groups write numbers as an active choice in accordance with their own sociocultural contexts, which reflect the influences of historical, cognitive, social, economic, political, environmental, and cultural factors. This book integrates comparative, cognitive, and evolutionary understandings on numerical cognition with historical and linguistic evidence on the use and transformation of numeral systems through the historical advancement of numeracy. Chrisomalis offers an interesting historical perspective on numbers that builds upon three main …

History Or Heritage? An Analysis Of Ghana’S Primary School History Curriculum, Charles Adabo Oppong

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

Abstract

At a time that history has gained its place in Ghana’s basic school curriculum, considerable differences of opinion arise, not about the subject’s significance in the school curriculum but concerning the legitimacy of the subject title - that is, whether or not the subject should be referenced ‘History of Ghana’ or ‘Heritage of Ghana’. The different opinions reflect Lowenthal’s (1998) observation that history and heritage are separate disciplines. However, the two subjects are often used interchangeably (Mermion, 2012) and “are habitually confused with each other” (Lowenthal 1998, p. x). While expert academics may be at ease with the distinctions …