Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Citizenship, Social and Economics Education
Publication Date
2024
Keywords
presidential election, early childhood civic education, elementary civic education, preservice teacher, comfort and concerns, engaged pedagogy
Abstract
As democracies have deteriorated worldwide, understanding preservice teachers’ perceptions regarding teaching about the 2020 US presidential election helps teacher educators better guide them to make informed and intentional pedagogical decisions for democratic education. Through a survey study, we found that early childhood and elementary preservice social studies teachers did not express a strong degree of comfort teaching about the presidential election and were most comfortable teaching about matters of literacy and of political agreement.
Funding Source
This article was published Open Access thanks to a transformative agreement between Milner Library and Sage Journals.
DOI
10.1177/14788047241233485
Recommended Citation
Lucey, T., & Zhao, X. (2024). Seeking the masculine with the feminine: P-6 pre-service teachers’ views on teaching about the 2020 US presidential election. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/14788047241233485
Comments
First published in Citizenship, Social and Economics Education (2024): https://doi.org/10.1177/14788047241233485.
This is an Open Access article licensed with a CC BY-NC 4.0 Deed | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.