Two-Column Notes

Date:9/21/
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Name: Nick Ruckman

Class/Subject: EDTL 2760

MR Title(s): Beyond Personally Responsible in Press

MR Source(s): Patterson, N., Misco, T., & Doppen, F. (2012). Beyond personally
responsible: A study of teacher conceptualizations of citizenship education.
Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice, 7(2), 191-206.
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I Say
Notes (key concepts, direct quotes, etc.)
My notes, commentary

Page: 204
This study shows that teachers
conceptualizations of citizenship
education can have a tremendous impact
on the sorts of citizenship learning
experiences students receive, and that
these conceptualizations may pose
barriers to effective social studies
teaching.
Page: 201
I think we teach social studies in high
school and seventh grade so that
students understand, really, you should
be teaching everything with the main idea
of encouraging students to be curious
about the world ... which helps them
determine what their specialization in life
should be how they can be selfactualized.

This is a very true and strong statement, the

way teachers view citizenship and the way we
teach our students about citizenship and
greatly affect the way they act as citizens.
That is why, as teachers, it is our job to make
sure that we teach our students to be the
most logical, culturally aware, and active
citizens I our country.

This another very true statement. Being a

Social Studies teacher means that we need to
get kids involved in the outside world, and in
doing so helping them figure out what they
want to do with that world. Every subject a
Social Studies teacher teaches helps students
learn about the world and how it works. With
that knowledge, kids can think about what
they want or need to do in order to make it a
better place.

Page:200

Good citizens participate in maintaining

this country and the dreams and sweat of
previous generations.

This quote may be small but it packs a lot of

punch. As citizens we need to participate in
our government if we want to change the way
things are. If we sit back and do nothing, and
proceed to complain about what is happening
then we are the worst kind of people. We have
the opportunity to change things and we need
to do it. Our say does count so we cannot let
opportunities and freedoms such as these slip
from our hands while we have them.
Page: 199
I both agree and disagree with this statement.
In teaching the [American] Revolution
I believe that is always good to go back and
and teaching the ideas of John Locke and
see how an aspect of our life has started,
Rousseau, it helps build on their
especially one as big as our democracy. Is it
understanding of where our democracy
harder to apply to modern day life? Of course
comes from and that theyre part of that. I it is, but we still need to know our roots. If we
just dont know how much they equate
do not know how we started our just
that to real-life situations that they have
completely disregarded it, would we still
today. So its much easier to teach the
consider ourselves American? On a different
realness of this stuff than it is to teach
point, I believe it is also good to use modern
how the old stuff has affected us today.
day events to teach so it does apply more to a
students life. That way they can see the
immediate effect of how our society works.
Connections to previous MR: This connects to the previous reading in many ways. This paper further
explains the importance of teaching Social Studies, and why kids should listen. This paper tells us how
Social Studies can teach us to become better citizens or how the certain type of teacher can change our
views on how citizenship works. Without Social Studies we would not know how are government works
or what our government is even based off of. This papers explains why we should teach social studies.
We need to teach it because our future citizens rely on us to tell them how to be an active citizen when
they go off to life beyond school.