Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Foreword xvi
Acknowledgments xviii
1 Introduction to the Wiley Handbook of Social Studies Research 1Meghan McGlinn Manfra and Cheryl Mason Bolick
Section I: Foundations of Social Studies Research 7
2 A Concise Historiography of the Social Studies 9Stephen J. Thornton
3 The Intellectual History of the Social Studies 42Thomas Fallace
4 Quantitative Research and Large-Scale Secondary Analysis in Social Studies 68Paul G. Fitchett and Tina L. Heafner
5 Qualitative Inquiry in Social Studies Research 95Todd Dinkelman and Alexander Cuenca
6 Practitioner Research in the Social Studies: Findings from Action Research and Self-Study 132Meghan McGlinn Manfra
7 Exemplars from the Field of Social Studies Education Research 168Patricia G. Avery and Keith C. Barton
Section II: Frameworks Guiding Social Studies Research 189
8 Critical Theory(s) 191Catherine Cornbleth
9 A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Social Studies Research, Theory and Practice 209Oscar Navarro and Tyrone C. Howard
10 Gender and Feminist Scholarship in Social Studies Research: A Dynamic Theoretical Framework Living on the Edges 227Chara Haeussler Bohan
11 Sexuality and Queer Theory in the Social Studies 254J. B. Mayo, Jr.
12 Social Constructivism and Student Learning in Social Studies 270Stephanie van Hover and David Hicks
13 Democratic Citizenship Education: Research Across Multiple Landscapes and Contexts 287Antonio J. Castro and Ryan T. Knowles
Section III: Teaching and Learning Social Studies 319
14 Teaching and Learning about Controversial Issues and Topics in the Social Studies: A Review of the Research 321Li-Ching Ho, Paula McAvoy, Diana Hess, and Brian Gibbs
15 Disciplined Inquiry in Social Studies Classrooms 336John W. Saye
16 Becoming an “Expert” Social Studies Teacher: What We Know about Teacher Education and Professional Development 360Margaret Smith Crocco and Ellen Livingston
17 Children’s Learning and Understanding in their Social World 385Anne-Lise Halvorsen
18 Leveraging Literacy: Research on Critical Reading in the Social Studies 414Ilene R. Berson, Michael J. Berson, Danielle V. Dennis, and Rebecca Lovering Powell
19 Emergent Bilinguals in the Social Studies 440Cinthia S. Salinas, Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, and Brooke Blevins
20 The Problem of Knowing What Students Know: Classroom-Based and Large-Scale Assessment in Social Studies 461S. G. Grant
21 Media and Social Studies Education 477Jeremy D. Stoddard and Alan S. Marcus
22 The Diffusion of Technology into the Social Studies 499Cheryl Mason Bolick
23 Global Education 518David L. Grossman
24 Social Studies Scholarship Past, Present, and Future 569Carole L. Hahn
Index 596