Ryan Knowles

Publications | Books

Publications | Book Chapters

• Knowles, R., Hawkman, A., Suarez, M.I, (2024). Making quant critical: Centralizing critical theories in quantitative social studies research: (Re)Envisioning Social Studies Education Research . Information Age Publishing
• Heafner, T., Fitchett, P., Knowles, R.T, (2016). Using “big data” secondary dataset analysis to inform social studies teaching and learning.: Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education for Twenty-First Century Citizenship.
• Castro, A.J, Knowles, R.T, (2015). Social Studies Education: International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition.
• Knowles, R.T, Theobald, R., (2013). Moving Toward More Dynamic Instruction: A Comparison of How Social Studies is taught Among Disciplines and Advanced Placement Courses: Research on the status of social studies: Views from the field.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Chamberlain, K., Rarick, R., De Oliveria, J., Nelson, L., Knowles, R.T, (2025). Civic Education, school climate, and gender in Latin American countries: A path analysis using ICCS 2016 Data. . International Journal of Educational Research, 130:102501
• Penrod, C., Wheeler, I., Knowles, R.T, (2024). Preparing youth for global challenges: can an open classroom climate prepare students for climate action?. Environmental Education Research, 1-23. doi: DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2024.2416546
• Turner, R., Knowles, R., Cochran, J., (2024). Profile of an Elementary Teacher—How Instructional Strategies Differ across Elementary Classrooms. The Social Studies, 115:4
• Chen, S., Sleipness, O., Christensen, K.M, Yang, B., Park, K., Knowles, R., Wang, H., (2024). Exploring Associations between Social Interaction and Urban Park Attributes: Design Guideline for Both Overall and Separate Park Quality Enhancement. . Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 145:104714, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104714.
• Knowles, R., Tijoe, S., (2023). Rethinking classroom climates: exploring civic education in Indonesia using data from the International Civic and Citizenship Study. . Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 731, 219-232.
• Hawkman, A., Knowles, R., (2023). Teaching #BlackLivesMatter in the Classroom: Exploring the Racial Pedagogical Decision Making of PK-12 Teachers. Journal of Curriculum Studies
• Knowles, R., (2020). Findings Related to Student Identity Using the Large-Scale Civic Education Datasets. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 513
• Knowles, R.T, (2020). Ideological Composition of the Classroom: Testing effects of polarization on perceptions of open classroom climate among students in five countries. Educational Psychology , doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2019.1622650
• Knowles, R., Hawkman, A., Nielsen, S., (2020). The social studies teacher-coach: A quantitative analysis comparing coaches and non-coaches across how/what they teach. Journal of Social Studies Research1, 117-125.
• Knowles, R., (2019). Ideology in the schools: Developing the teacher’s civic education ideology scale within the United States. Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice
• Knowles, R., Castro, A.J, (2019). The implications of ideology on teachers' emphasized civic behavior in the classroom . Teaching and Teacher Education , 77, 226-239.
• Knowles, R., (2018). Re-envisioning education for civic engagement in the social media century. Democracy and Education , 26:1
• Knowles, R., (2018). Teaching who you are: Connecting teachers’ civic education ideology to instructional strategies. Theory and Research in Social Education, 46:1, 68-109. doi: DOI:10.1080/00933104.2017.1356776.
• Knowles, R., Clark, C., (2018). How common is the common good? Moving beyond idealistic notions of deliberative democracy in education. Teaching and Teacher Education
• Knowles, R., Torney-Purta, J., Barber, C., (2018). Enhancing citizenship learning with international comparative research: Analysis of IEA civic education databases. Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 13:2
• McCafferty-Wright, J., Knowles, R., (2016). Unblocking the civic potential of current events with an open classroom climate.. Social Studies Research and Practice, 11:1
• Knowles, R., Di Stefano, M., (2015). International Citizenship Education Research: An annotated bibliography of research using the IEA ICCS and IEA CIVED datasets. Journal of International Social Studies, 5:2
• Knowles, R., (2015). Asian Values and Democratic Citizenship: Exploring Attitudes among South Korean 8th Graders Using Data from the Asia Module of the International Civic and Citizenship Study. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 35:2, 191-212.
• Knowles, R.T, McCaffert-Wright, J., (2015). Connecting an Open Classroom Climate to Social Movement Citizenship: A study using the International Civic and Citizenship Study among 8th Graders in Western Europe. Journal of Social Studies Research, 39:4, 255-269.
• Shear, S., Knowles, R.T, Soden, G., Castro, A.J, (2015). Manifesting destiny: Re/presentations of Indigenous peoples in K-12 U.S. history standards. Theory and Research in Social Education, 43:1, 68-101.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.