Papers by Shari Dickstein
DESPITE NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS at reforming the teaching of history, high school students still rate i... more DESPITE NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS at reforming the teaching of history, high school students still rate it as the least exciting subject they study. 1 Yet recent research shows that interdisciplinary curricula, particularly in the humanities, can have positive benefits for students. These include increased student motivation, increased student performance, a better understanding of and ability to retain content, encouragement of multiple points of view and perspectives, increased critical and creative thinking, and a means of dealing with the postmodern problem of fragmented knowledge. 2 In addition , there are benefits particular to using literature in social studies classes. Using fiction may help break down artificial barriers between disciplines, engaging students in reading and thereby truly integrating literacy with social studies. Discussions of form and its impact on shaping the presentation of content are rarely clearer than they are when reading literature, and this can make students more aware of the ways content is represented in text books and primary source documents. Literature is also a powerful tool for integrating and highlighting voices from the past-especially those of children, minorities, women, and the poor-that may not be those generally heard or read by students in their historical studies. In this article, we offer a series of strategies to help teachers integrate
Professional development (PD) “for diversity” aims to prepare teachers to support students from v... more Professional development (PD) “for diversity” aims to prepare teachers to support students from varying backgrounds to succeed, often in underresourced contexts. Although many teachers invite such inquiry as part of learning to teach, others resist “diversity” inquiry as extra to teaching, saying they cannot “do it all.” In this article, we discuss how preservice teachers at times caricature the requests of PD for diversity, hearing the task as a call to undertake superhuman tasks and to be people other than who they are.
We argue that these caricatures require direct acknowledgment by both preservice teachers and teacher educators working in diverse contexts.
The History Teacher, Jan 1, 2007
... Diana B. Turk, Emily Klein, and Shari Dickstein New York University, Montclair State Universi... more ... Diana B. Turk, Emily Klein, and Shari Dickstein New York University, Montclair State University, and Harvard University DESPITE NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS at reforming the teaching of history, ... Page 2. 398 Diana B. Turk, Emily Klein, and Shari Dickstein ...
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Papers by Shari Dickstein
We argue that these caricatures require direct acknowledgment by both preservice teachers and teacher educators working in diverse contexts.
We argue that these caricatures require direct acknowledgment by both preservice teachers and teacher educators working in diverse contexts.