Shira Eve Epstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 6008248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shira Eve Epstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shira Eve |
| FAMILY NAME | Epstein |
| SIGNATURE | EPSTEIN S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | City College of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9358-664X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Boundary-crossing to support youth civic engagement
Current research affirms the value of scaffolding authentic youth civic engagement through action-oriented methods. Yet, consistent pressure from testing, fossilized pedagogies focused on lecture, and a new spate of United States state laws curtailing civic engagement in the classroom threaten these efforts. This paper analyses the perspectives of two early-career teachers working in schools in the United States—one elementary and one secondary—t…
Chapter 7
Context Civic education is marginalized in many U.S. schools. It is especially rare in elementary schools and in schools serving low-income students of color. Although professional development opportunities in civic education for teachers are limited, these experiences can positively influence teachers’ conceptions of teaching for civic engagement. There is a need for quality professional learning to promote civic education in schools. Focus of S…
Voices of Ambivalence
Preparing and Supporting New Teachers During the Trump Era
Getting personal? Student talk about racism
This research explores student responses to Beyond Today, an after school program that brings youth together from diverse urban neighborhoods to form a multiracial community. Through the enacted curriculum, Beyond Today facilitators scaffold opportunities for students to study race and racial discrimination in historical and contemporary contexts. In this article, we examine how the students personally related to examples of racism and inequity. …
Who are your Friends?” Complexities in Multicultural Education
Who are your Friends?” Complexities in Multicultural Education
From Ideal to Practice and Back Again
The five authors of this article designed a multicase study to follow recent graduates of an elementary preservice teacher education program into their beginning teaching placements and explore the ways in which they enacted social justice curricula. The authors highlight the stories of three beginning teachers, honoring the plurality of their conceptions of social justice teaching and the resiliency they exhibited in translating social justice i…
From Ideal to Practice and Back Again
The five authors of this article designed a multicase study to follow recent graduates of an elementary preservice teacher education program into their beginning teaching placements and explore the ways in which they enacted social justice curricula. The authors highlight the stories of three beginning teachers, honoring the plurality of their conceptions of social justice teaching and the resiliency they exhibited in translating social justice i…
Voices of Ambivalence
Getting personal? Student talk about racism
This research explores student responses to Beyond Today, an after school program that brings youth together from diverse urban neighborhoods to form a multiracial community. Through the enacted curriculum, Beyond Today facilitators scaffold opportunities for students to study race and racial discrimination in historical and contemporary contexts. In this article, we examine how the students personally related to examples of racism and inequity. …
Preparing and Supporting New Teachers During the Trump Era
Who are your Friends?” Complexities in Multicultural Education
Who are your Friends?” Complexities in Multicultural Education
Who are your Friends?” Complexities in Multicultural Education
From Ideal to Practice and Back Again
The five authors of this article designed a multicase study to follow recent graduates of an elementary preservice teacher education program into their beginning teaching placements and explore the ways in which they enacted social justice curricula. The authors highlight the stories of three beginning teachers, honoring the plurality of their conceptions of social justice teaching and the resiliency they exhibited in translating social justice i…
Getting personal? Student talk about racism
This research explores student responses to Beyond Today, an after school program that brings youth together from diverse urban neighborhoods to form a multiracial community. Through the enacted curriculum, Beyond Today facilitators scaffold opportunities for students to study race and racial discrimination in historical and contemporary contexts. In this article, we examine how the students personally related to examples of racism and inequity. …
Preparing and Supporting New Teachers During the Trump Era
Voices of Ambivalence
Chapter 7
Context Civic education is marginalized in many U.S. schools. It is especially rare in elementary schools and in schools serving low-income students of color. Although professional development opportunities in civic education for teachers are limited, these experiences can positively influence teachers’ conceptions of teaching for civic engagement. There is a need for quality professional learning to promote civic education in schools. Focus of S…
Boundary-crossing to support youth civic engagement
Current research affirms the value of scaffolding authentic youth civic engagement through action-oriented methods. Yet, consistent pressure from testing, fossilized pedagogies focused on lecture, and a new spate of United States state laws curtailing civic engagement in the classroom threaten these efforts. This paper analyses the perspectives of two early-career teachers working in schools in the United States—one elementary and one secondary—t…
Pedagogy (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Curriculum (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Political science (4 works)