Episode 201: Thematically Teaching Public Issues with Tradebooks with Jeremiah Clabough, Caroline Sheffield, Timothy Lintner, & Allie Whitford

In episode 201, Dan and Michael chat about the research project that focuses on thematically teaching public issues with Jeremiah Clabough, Caroline Sheffield, Timothy Litner, & Allie Whitford.

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Books, Articles and Other Amazing Resources

  1. Whitford, A., Lintner, T., Clabough, J., Sheffield, C., & Russell, W. (2024). Portraits of change: Using picture books to engage students in thematic civic education. Journal of Social Studies Research, 48(1), 49-63.
  2. Episode 197: Gender Stereotypes in Elementary with Alyssa Whitford
  3. Morrison, G. (2023). Seven Soldiers of Victory. DC Comics. 
  4. Evans, R., & Saxe, D.W. (1996). Handbook on Teaching Social Issues. NCSS.
  5. Racial discrimination lesson (different trade books)
    1. Gates, H.L. (2019). Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow. Scholastic.
  6. Weatherford, C.B. (2021). Unspeakable: Tulsa Race Massacre. Carolrhoda Books.
  7. National Council for the Social Studies. (2013). College, career, and civic life (C3) framework for social studies state standards: Guidance for enhancing the rigor of K-12 civics, economics, geography, and history. Author.
  8. Slade, S., & Ratteree, A. (2020). Dangerous Jane: The life and times of Jane Addams, Crusader for Peace. Peachtree. 
  9. Myers, W.D., & Christensen, B. (2015). Ida B. Wells: Let the truth be told. Amistad Books for Young Readers. 
  10. Markel, M., & Sweet, M. (2013). Brave girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909. Balzer+Bray.
  11. Blight, D.W. (2020). Frederick Douglass: Prophet of freedom. Simon & Schuster.
  12. Frederick Douglass body project- I have attached the example with the bios and photos.
  13. Barton, C., & Tate, D. (2015). The amazing age of John Roy Lynch. Edmans Books for Young Readers.
  14. NCSS. (2023). Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People. socialstudies.org/notable-trade-books.
  15. NCSS.(2023). Carter G. Woodson Book Awards.https://www.socialstudies.org/membership/awards/carter-g-woodson-book-awards
  16. NCSS. (2023). Septima Clark Book Awards. https://www.socialstudies.org/awards/septima-clark-book-awards
  17. Michigan eLibrary (2023). Home. https://mel.org/welcome
  18. More reading:
    1. Clabough, J., & Sheffield, C. (2023). Historical context to civic action: Trade books and disciplinary literacy instruction. The Social Studies, 114(4), 183-204.
    2. Clabough, J., & Sheffield, C. (2022). An unspeakable act: Disciplinary literacy, racial literacy, and the Tulsa Race Massacre. Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 7(3), 67-103.
    3. Clabough, J., Sheffield, C., & Rowland-Ellis, K. (2023). Unspeakable violence: Reading and writing about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Social Studies Teaching and Learning: The Official Journal of the Kentucky Council for the Social Studies, 4(1), 40-58.
    4. Sheffield, C., & Clabough, J. (2023). Disciplinary literacy, trade books, and culturally responsive teaching in middle grades social studies. Teaching Social Studies, 23(2), 9-17.
    5. Clabough, J., & Sheffield, C. (2022). Trade books, comics, and local history: Exploring Fred Shuttleworth’s fight for civil rights. The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies, 84(1), Article 3.
    6. Clabough, J., & Sheffield, C. (2023). Pictures of the Harlem Hellfighters: Trade books and visual primary sources in the 6th grade U.S. history classroom. Accepted to The History Teacher.
    7. Whitford, A., Sheffield, C., Lintner, T., & Clabough, J. (2023). Spotlighting Progressive women in U.S. history: Picture books in the middle school. Accepted to The Social Studies.

Biographies

Jeremiah Clabough is an Associate Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a former middle and high school social studies teacher. His research interest focuses on developing K-12 students’ civic thinking, literacy, and argumentation skills. He can be reached at jclabous2@uab.edu.

Caroline C. Sheffield is an associate professor of social studies education at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. Her research focuses on the use of multimodal trade books as instructional tools in the social studies classroom. She has also conducted research in technology integration in the social studies. Prior to moving to higher education, she was a middle school social studies teacher in Jacksonville and Tampa, Florida. She can be reached at caroline.sheffield@louisville.edu.

Timothy Lintner is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Carolina Professor of Education at the University of South Carolina Aiken. His research interests examine the intersections of social studies, special education, and visual literacy. Prior to his arrival at USC Aiken, he taught high school social studies in Los Angeles.

Dr. Alyssa Whitford is a former elementary teacher and current assistant professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Her areas of expertise are literacy and social studies, and she is currently researching how critical literacy pedagogy can be used to teach social issues, particularly issues of gender, in elementary classrooms. Her work is especially focused on how students perceive the social world and the power of literacy to elicit, challenge, and expand student thinking. Alyssa earned a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education from Michigan State University and is passionate about working with pre-service teachers to create powerful, engaging experiences for elementary students.

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