Students as Historians Using Technology to Examine Local History Beyond the Classroom
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Biografisk notat
Scott Scheuerell taught high school social studies for nine years and graduated with a PhD in social studies education from the University of Missouri where his research focused on the integration of technology in social studies instruction. In the education program at Loras College (IA), he teaches Multicultural Education and Social Studies Methods.This book takes on the laudable task of promoting students doing local history. The author has anticipated what is needed to implement local history and provided guidance. The chapters provide examples of local history and descriptions of students doing local history. Local history examples are provided for the topics of reconstruction, prairie living, westward migration and desegregation of schools. Teachers interested in local history will find much help in this book.
- Ronald Banaszak, editor in chief, The Social Studies Journal,
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1:Introduction to Technology Frameworks
Chapter 2:The Case for Local History
Chapter 3:Black Historical Knowledge
Chapter 4:Google Earth—Western Missouri on the Eve of Civil War
Chapter 5:Google Earth—The Impact of Education in an 1880 Kansas Community
Chapter 6:Google Earth—Exodusters from Kentucky and Tennessee to Western Kansas
Chapter 7:Google Earth—Reconstruction in Northwest Missouri
Chapter 8:Segregation in Mobile, Alabama
Chapter 9:Design-Based Research—Segregation in Mobile, Alabama
Chapter 10:Black Grievances and Tactics to Confront Segregation in Mobile, AL
Chapter 11:Design-Based Research—Black Grievances and Tactics in Mobile, AL
Chapter 12:Integration of Mobile’s Catholic Schools
Chapter 13:Design-Based Research—Integration of Mobile’s Catholic Schools
Bibliography
About the Author