"Like, Right Now We Don't Really Have a Voice": Stories of Secondary Social Studies Teachers Working with ELLs

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dc.contributor.advisorBrugar, Kristy
dc.contributor.authorDeWitt, Sarah
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHouser, Neil
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBorden, Rebecca
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-30T19:09:34Z
dc.date.available2020-04-30T19:09:34Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-08
dc.date.manuscript2020
dc.description.abstractStudents for whom English is a second or additional language are a significant and growing population within public schools. Notions of inclusion and citizenship are uniquely and distinctly a part of social studies. In combination, these factors present an opportunity for social studies teachers to meaningfully engage with their students, many of whom are English language learners (ELLs), in ways that expand 1) our understandings of what constitutes valuable knowledge and 2) the boundaries of citizenship education. Through a qualitative narrative inquiry, the researcher explored three secondary social studies teachers whose work predominately involved ELLs. Through interviews, guided by think aloud protocols, and through the collection of classroom artifacts, the researcher explored how secondary social studies teachers working with increasing numbers of ELLs “took up the charge” of educating for and about citizenship. Informed by the theory of transnational funds of knowledge, the researcher found that two of the teachers recognized, valued, and incorporated students’ languages, countries of origins, and knowledge bases in ways that extended or transformed traditional approaches to ELLs and to citizenship education. Their efforts and successes may provide opportunities for other teachers in similar contexts to reflect on their own practices. Future researchers may be interested in factors that may support or constrain teachers in the development of a transnational funds of knowledge stance.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/324154
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.subjectELLsen_US
dc.subjectEnglish language learnersen_US
dc.subjectsocial studiesen_US
dc.subjectcitizenshipen_US
dc.subject.lcshCivics--Study and teaching (Secondary)
dc.subject.lcshLimited English-proficient students--Oklahoma
dc.subject.lcshImmigrant students--Oklahoma
dc.subject.lcshAmericanization
dc.subject.lcshCulturally relevant pedagogy--Oklahoma
dc.thesis.degreeMaster of Educationen_US
dc.title"Like, Right Now We Don't Really Have a Voice": Stories of Secondary Social Studies Teachers Working with ELLsen_US
ou.groupJeannine Rainbolt College of Education::Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculumen_US
shareok.nativefileaccessrestricteden_US
shareok.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5248-7629en_US

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