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Diana Hess

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1998
Curriculum & Instruction
Teacher Education Rm: 256D
225 N. Mills Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Phone: (608) 263-4571        
Email: dhess@education.wisc.edu

Areas of Study

Social Studies Education

Publications

Hess, D.  2007. From In Banished to Brother Outsider, Miss Navajo to An Inconvenient Truth: Documentary films as perspective-laden narrativesSocial Education71(4)(194-199 ) .

Hess. D. 2006. Should intelligent design be taught in social studies?Social Education79(3)( 8-13) .

Hess, D 2005. Moving beyond celebration: Challenging curricular orthodoxy in the teaching of Brown and its legaciesTeachers College Record107(3)(2046-2067 ) .

Hess, D.  2004. Controversies about controversial issues in democratic educationPS: Politics and Society37(2)( 267-261) .

Hess, D., & Posselt, J. 2002. How students experience and learn from the discussion of controversial issues in secondary social studiesJournal of Curriculum and Supervision17(4)(283-314 ) .

Hess, D.  2002. Teaching controversial issues discussions: Learning from skilled teachersTheory and Research in Social Education30(1)( 283-314) .

Hess, D., Stoddard, J. & Murto, S. (in press ). Examining the treatment of 9/11 and terrorism in high school textbooksJ. Bixby & J. Pace Education democratic citizens in troubled times: Qualitative studies of current efforts( ). New York: Suny Press.

Leone de Nie, K., Todd, A., & Hess, D. (Eds.) (2002). Connecting to the courts: A teacher's guide to the Wisconsin courts Madison, WI: Supreme Court.

Hess, D. & Marri, A. (2002). Teaching the conflicts: Selecting which Supreme Court cases to teachSocial Education 66(1)pp. 53-59.

Hess, D. (2002). How students experience and learn from the discussion of controversial public issues in secondary social studiesJournal of Curriculum and Supervision17(4)283-314.

Hess, D. (2002). Teaching controversial public issues discussions: Learning from skilled teachersTheory and Research in Social Education30(1)10-41.

Hess, D. (2001). Teaching students to discuss controversial public issues Bloomington, IN: Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service EDO-SO-2001-7).

Parker, W.C. & Hess, D. (2001). Teaching with and for discussionTeaching and Teacher Education17pp. 273-289.

Hess, D., & Arbetman, L. (Eds.) (2001). Cases, controversies, and the court: Teaching about the Supreme CourtSocial Education66(1)29-72.

Hess, D. (2000). Developing strong voters through democratic deliberationSocial Education64(5)193-196.

Hess, D. & Ganzler, L. ( 2007 ). Patriotism and ideological diversity in the classroom J. WestheimerPledging Allegiance: The Politics of patriotism in America's schools (131-138). New York: Teachers College Press.

Interests

• Social Studies
• Democracy Education
• Classroom Discourse
• Teaching Legal and Constitutional Cases and Issues in Schools

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