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Sara Evers is a PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction for History and Social Science Education at Virginia Tech. Before pursuing her doctorate, she taught high school history in Virginia public schools. She currently works as an Educational Consultant for the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program.Sara’s research investigates how historical knowledge is defined and enacted. She studies:
•History and social science education policy and initiatives
•Pedagogies for teaching and learning history (e.g., historical thinking, historical consciousness, historical literacy, historical inquiry, historical reasoning)
•Curriculum study, including the history of history and social science curriculum
•History teachers’ pedagogical decision making
Sara's current projects include History Education for the Techno-Curious https://genaiinhistoryeducation.com/. She is interested in GenAI as a social technology and is currently studying how GenAI applications communicate history through immersive experience. Future research plans include exploration of how information technologies influence teachers’ attitudes towards and pedagogical decision making around assessment of historical knowledge.

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