The Relationship Between Education Students' Political Perspective and Their Attitudes Toward Education Restrictions of Immigrants

Levels of nationalism among middle and high school social studies teachers: Implications for promoting equity for immigrant students and with educators

“…The constructs measured in this study come from a part of this larger nationwide survey of K-12 teachers that seeks to measure teachers’ awareness of educational policy towards undocumented students, awareness of false immigration narratives, attitudes towards educational rights for undocumented and DACA students, beliefs about borders and migration, levels of nationalism, and attitudes towards current immigration issues (McCorkle, 2018a; Rodriguez & McCorkle, 2020). The two constructs that are explored in this study are levels of nationalism and attitudes towards educational rights for immigrant students.…”

“…The sample (N = 927) for this survey was gathered from a larger study (McCorkle, 2018a; Rodriguez & McCorkle, 2020; N = 5190). It was grounded in the sampling method of Wright et al (2015) based on congressional districts.…”

“…Another strategy to confront detrimental nationalistic views is to have pre-service teachers study the issues of nationalism worldwide before directly looking at their own national context where they might be naturally be more resistant to examining the issue in a more objective manner (McCorkle, 2018a). Infusing cultural variety and increasing opportunities for multicultural perspectives has been beneficial to increase empathy toward diverse populations while critiquing blind nationalism and patriotism and its effects, especially since patriotism can make more nationalistic and even jingoistic attitudes opaque (Bullough Jr, 2019).…”

“…Yet, little research exists on teachers' embrace or rejection of nationalism. This study analyzes survey data from a national sample of K-12 public school teachers (N = 5190) (McCorkle, 2018a). From a nested sample of middle and high school social studies teachers (N = 927), we examine social studies teachers' views on nationalism (nationalism overall, chauvinistic nationalism, and patriotism as defined above), differences in levels of nationalism based on different demographic and regional factors, and the relationship between levels of nationalism and the beliefs about educational rights for (un)documented immigrant students using both correlation and linear regression analyses.…”

“… 14. In the larger study, we analyzed teachers from all subject areas (McCorkle, 2018a), social studies teachers were more nationalistic than ESOL, Language Arts, and Foreign Language teachers but less nationalistic than Math, Special Education, and Science teachers. …”