%0 Journal Article
%T Preservice teachers' attitudes toward the inclusion of heritage education in elementary social studies
%A Cemil C. YE£¿£¿LBURSA
%A Keith BARTON
%J Journal of Social Studies Education Research
%D 2011
%I Association for Social Studies Educators (ASSE)
%X This study explores pre-service teachers¡¯ attitudes toward heritage education, an approach to teaching history grounded in first-hand experiences with material culture. The research was conducted at a large Midwestern university in the United States, in a methods course that included 28 pre-service teachers. Data were derived from both quantitative and qualitative instruments, including attitude surveys completed before and after classroom activities and a field trip to a local history museum; these activities aimed to introduce teachers to the meaning and purpose of using material history in elementary classrooms. We found that pre-service teachers already had highly positive attitudes toward inclusion of heritage education; that they considered heritage resources educationally valuable; and that they wanted to use such resources in their teaching. Participants¡¯ attitudes, however, showed little or no change after participating in classroom activities, presumably because their initial perceptions of heritage materials were so uniformly positive
%K Heritage education
%K Historic places
%K Social studies
%U http://www.jsser.org/index.php/JSSER/article/viewFile/50/pdf