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Where does it Begin?: Advocacy for Elementary School Social Studies An Analysis of Early and Middle Childhood Teacher Educators in Ohio Colleges and Universities

Knight, Rhonda Talford
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275419643

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2010, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
This is a descriptive study that describes the teacher educators that teach the early and middle childhood social studies methods courses in Ohio colleges and universities. The specific purpose of this study was to investigate: 1) How do we know if the teacher educators teaching the early and middle childhood social studies methods courses are grounded in the importance of social studies?, 2) What actions in the early and middle childhood social studies methods course do the early and middle childhood social studies teacher educators in the study describe as advocacy for elementary school social studies?, and 3) How do these teacher educators teach their students to respond to the marginalization of elementary school social studies? The study also focused on identifying ways teacher educators are advocating for elementary social studies in early and middle childhood social studies methods courses in an era when content disciplines are competing for pedagogical time. To collect data the researcher used a survey research design through an on-line data collection service called SurveyMonkey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/). The participant list consisted of 84 teacher educators from 45 Ohio colleges and universities offering an accredited undergraduate teacher preparation program that leads to licensure to teach social studies in elementary school classrooms (grades Kindergarten through five) in the state of Ohio. The questionnaire, titled Advocating for Elementary Social Studies: Where does it Begin?, consisted of two sections: a) Participant Demographics and Background Data and b) Professional Viewpoints. The researcher used a five-step process to increase response rate; 51 responses (61%) was collected. The statistical package used to perform the data analysis in this study was the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 17 for Windows. The study includes implications for Teacher Preparation Programs and recommendations for further research of early and middle childhood social studies teacher educators, first year elementary school teachers that advocate for elementary school social studies, and the National Council for the Social Studies and the Ohio Council for the Social Studies to examine how to address the marginalization of elementary school social studies.
Cynthia Tyson (Advisor)
Charles Hancock (Committee Member)
Barbara Seidl (Committee Member)
195 p.
Education; Elementary Education; Social Studies Education; Teacher Education
social studies; advocacy; NCSS; early childhood; middle childhood; teacher educators; teacher preparation; elementary social studies; marginalization of social studies

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  • Knight, R. T. (2010). Where does it Begin?: Advocacy for Elementary School Social Studies An Analysis of Early and Middle Childhood Teacher Educators in Ohio Colleges and Universities [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275419643

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Knight, Rhonda. Where does it Begin?: Advocacy for Elementary School Social Studies An Analysis of Early and Middle Childhood Teacher Educators in Ohio Colleges and Universities. 2010. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275419643.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Knight, Rhonda. "Where does it Begin?: Advocacy for Elementary School Social Studies An Analysis of Early and Middle Childhood Teacher Educators in Ohio Colleges and Universities." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275419643

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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