ABSTRACT
Sociocultural learning processes center around changing practices for engaged community participation by following norms of accepted forms of discourse. Learners develop manners for knowing-with that shape how they talk and act, use tools and representation, and how they think. Notions of literacy are generational and cultural. Locative literacies provide access to embedded representations that are distributed across space, digital devices, and the participating agents in an activity. The passages made people think and change their views. History is an area of social studies education that addresses many aspects of individual and collective behavior, such as culture, continuity and change, and power, authority, and governance. Students at the middle and high school levels are expected to exhibit certain “purposes, knowledge, and intellectual processes” for social studies. History education explores questions beyond dates and simple causes of major events.
