scholarly journals A Study on the World Geography Lesson of Social Studies Classroom in the United States – Focusing on Observation of High School Geography Class in Virginia –

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
윤옥경
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Geography ◽  
The World

scholarly journals YouTube: An international platform for sharing methods of cheating

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M Seitz ◽  
Muhsin M Orsini ◽  
Meredith R Gringle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Instructional Videos ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Technologies ◽  
Written Assignments ◽  
Age Range

This study investigated the video sharing website www.youtube.com for the presence of instructional videos that teach students how to cheat on academic work. Videos were analysed to determine the methods of cheating, the popularity of the videos, the demographics of viewers and those uploading the videos, and the opinions of viewers after watching these types of videos. A total of 43 videos were included in this study. Those featured in the videos taught viewers how to cheat on exams, homework, and written assignments using modern and traditional technologies. The far majority of those featured in the videos, and their viewers, were males within the age range of those who attend middle school, high school, and college. Videos were watched by people from several different nations, including the United States (US), Canada, Australia, India, and the United Kingdom (UK). The study's results suggest that instructional cheating videos are popular among students around the world. Positive viewer feedback indicates that the videos have educated and motivated students to put the methods of cheating found in the videos to use. Educators should consider YouTube as a resource in order to become familiar with various methods of cheating.

Activities for Students: A S(t)imulating Study of Map Projections: An Exploration Integrating Mathematics and Social Studies

2001 ◽  
Vol 94 (8) ◽  
pp. 660-671
Author(s):  
Jesse L. M. Wilkins ◽  
David Hicks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geography Education ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Map Projections ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Mental Mapping ◽  
Entire World

As technological advances continue to help more people make connections with the entire world, students must understand how to use and interpret information shown in different maps of the world (Geography Education Standards Project 1994; Freese 1997). However, mental-mapping research suggests that students in the United States have major misconceptions about proportions, locations, and perspective when they work with maps (Dulli and Goodman 1994; Stoltman 1991).

Buying into Dominant Ideas About Wealth and Poverty: An Examination of U.S. and Canadian Financial Literacy Standards

2020 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Agata Soroko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Financial Outcomes ◽  
Literacy Standards

Background In the wake of the 2007–2008 global financial crisis, calls for financial literacy education increased dramatically. In both the United States and Canada, the financial collapse and its aftermath saw a resurgence of personal finance programs and initiatives in schools. While financial literacy education continues to be introduced in U.S. and Canadian high schools through the implementation of financial literacy standards into social studies curricula, few studies have focused on the content and ideology of these standards. This study is the first to provide a systematic review of all available high school financial literacy standards across the United States and Canada. Purpose The purpose of this research was to render visible the hidden ideological underpinnings of financial literacy standards. Specifically, the study investigated what the discourse in the standards implied about individuals’ financial outcomes and what was made invisible about the ways in which people achieve or fail to achieve economic security and wealth. Research Design This study employed critical discourse and ideological analysis to examine state-sanctioned financial literacy standards from 43 high school social studies curriculum documents in the United States and Canada. Findings The analysis revealed that, overall, financial literacy standards framed financial wellbeing as a personal doing while neglecting to consider the broader social, economic, and political forces influencing financial outcomes. This research demonstrates how financial literacy discourses, rooted in ideologies of merit, often tell an incomplete story about the origins and determinants of both wealth and poverty. Conclusions The results from this study offer insight into how deficit thinking about economically marginalized individuals and groups continues to permeate educational discourse. In examining financial literacy standards in particular, this study contributes to existing research problematizing financial literacy initiatives and calling for more critical, inclusive, and nuanced approaches. This research also adds to scholarship unpacking the ideological assumptions embedded in state-mandated academic standards concerning wealth and poverty.

Modern Curriculum Problems in the Teaching of Mathematics in Secondary Schools

1939 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
W. D. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The United States has more children above fourteen years of age in school than all the other countries of the world. In many communities, we have sixty per cent and in a few cases as high as ninety per cent of the ten million pupils of eligible age in school. High school enrollment has grown five times as fast as the population in general. According to Douglass,

Metric Week—the Capitol Way

1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 454-458
Author(s):  
L. Diane Miller ◽  
Jim Miller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Baton Rouge ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Instructional Time ◽  
National Council ◽  
Slow Process ◽  
The World ◽  
International Measurement

Metrication in the United States has been a long, slow process. In fact, some people continue to question the necessity for conversion. Why should instructional time and teachers' energies continue to be committed to improving our students' knowledge of metric measures? Because in addition to being more logically constructed and more convenient to use than our customary system of measurement, the metric system, known as Systeme International (SI), is the system of measurement being used in the world in which we are preparing our students to live. A lack of metric sense will, for some, be a handicap as they seek to participate in careers and leisure activities that involve international trade and travel. It is time to renew our commitment to helping our students understand and use this system of international measurement. This article illustrates how the faculty of Capitol High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, accepted the responsibility of helping students gain a better working knowledge of metric measures during the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics National Metric Week, 4-10 October 1987.

Using Mathematics to Build an Understanding of the United States

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
Ellen L. Clay
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
Whole Language ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The World ◽  
Integrative Study ◽  
Mathematics Class

Mathematics is frequently separated from the rest of the educational experience to such an extent that even in the literature of whole language, with its comprehensive belief systems about integrative study, mathematics is often left out (Armbruster 1992). As a mathematician, I naturally see mathematics abound in the world around us. Therefore, after hearing comments from elementary school teachers that children read and write in every class but do mathematics only in mathematics class, I decided to design a social studies unit that would incorporate the use of mathematics. The resulting unit emphasizes the study of the United States as a whole rather than as fifty individual states.

Bringing the World to the Classroom: Using FBIS Reports in the Int'l Politics Course

1984 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
John Merrill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
International Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Students ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
The World

Many recent reports have voiced alarm at the decline of international and area studies in the United States. Symptomatic of this problem is the disturbing fact that only 15 percent of American high school students study a foreign language. This inadequate background is also apparent among students in introductory international politics courses. Few have traveled or lived overseas. Most have only a nodding acquaintance with foreign opinion garnered secondhand from newspapers and news weeklies — and not all can be supposed even to read these regularly. In this situation, the results obtained by assigning research papers are likely to be disappointing: many students simply lack the background to do a credible job. They feel put upon by the paper, postpone it until the last minute, and then cobble together a hasty paraphrase of a few stories and articles.

Sex Differences in Mass Media Preferences Across Four Asian Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malini Ratnasingam ◽  
Lee Ellis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evolutionary Explanation ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Preferences

Background. Nearly all of the research on sex differences in mass media utilization has been based on samples from the United States and a few other Western countries. Aim. The present study examines sex differences in mass media utilization in four Asian countries (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore). Methods. College students self-reported the frequency with which they accessed the following five mass media outlets: television dramas, televised news and documentaries, music, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. Results. Two significant sex differences were found when participants from the four countries were considered as a whole: Women watched television dramas more than did men; and in Japan, female students listened to music more than did their male counterparts. Limitations. A wider array of mass media outlets could have been explored. Conclusions. Findings were largely consistent with results from studies conducted elsewhere in the world, particularly regarding sex differences in television drama viewing. A neurohormonal evolutionary explanation is offered for the basic findings.

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