Publication Date
2021
Abstract
Because close reading and critical analysis of multiple sources is central to social studies, understanding teachers’ perspectives about productive textual engagement is imperative. This comparative study explored twelve 5ththrough 11th-grade social studies teachers’ perspectives about supporting students’ textual engagement via think-aloud interviews. Teacher-participants read hypothetical vignettes representing four paradigms of instruction with texts in social studies classrooms. Participants ranked the vignettes, provided reasoning about their value, and reflected on their own practices in relation to the paradigms. Participants placed higher value on fostering students’ historical literacies and civic literacies than on supporting students’ content-area literacies or traditional content acquisition. There were differences between how middle and high school teachers valued specific aspects of each paradigm and how they identified with each paradigm. The findings are discussed in relation to inferences and implications about how teachers interpret messages about productive textual engagement in the reform literature.
Recommended Citation
Popp, J. S., Di Domenico, P., & Makhlouf, J. (2021). Teachers’ Perspectives About Students’ Productive Textual Engagement in Social Studies. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 60 (1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol60/iss1/3
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