@article{nocera_newton_jiang_2024, title={"They created segregation with the economy": Using AI for a student-driven inquiry into redlining in the social studies classroom}, ISSN={["2163-1654"]}, DOI={10.1080/00933104.2024.2331466}, abstractNote={This article investigates students' engagement with a historical inquiry into redlining—a practice of discriminatory lending that originated in the 1930s as part of the New Deal. The authors developed and implemented a week-long curricular intervention for high school sophomores using StoryQ—an Artificial Intelligence (AI) textual modeling platform designed for high school students without technical expertise—to examine hundreds of neighborhood descriptions produced for the Home Owners Loan Corporation's "residential security maps" in the late 1930s. In this article, we ask: What kinds of historical and present-day racial awareness do high school students demonstrate through instruction focused on AI-assisted analysis of patterns in redlining? Analyzing field notes, interviews, and student-generated digital work showed that many students were drawn to structural explanations of racism and worked to unpack the way primary sources presented Whiteness through "coded language." We argue that it is not only possible for teachers to construct historical inquiries that aim to identify patterns in a large set of primary sources with the aid of AI, but this approach to inquiry offers students an important avenue to engage with alternatives to individual conceptions of racial oppression.}, journal={THEORY AND RESEARCH IN SOCIAL EDUCATION}, author={Nocera, Amato and Newton, Victoria and Jiang, Shiyan}, year={2024}, month={Apr} }
 @article{nocera_2023, title={"May We Not Write Our Own Fairy Tales and Make Black Beautiful?" African American Teachers, Children's Literature, and the Construction of Race in the Curriculum, 1920-1945}, volume={63}, ISSN={["1748-5959"]}, DOI={10.1017/heq.2022.41}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={1}, journal={HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY}, author={Nocera, Amato}, year={2023}, month={Feb}, pages={32–58} }
 @article{jiang_nocera_tatar_yoder_chao_wiedemann_finzer_rose_2022, title={An empirical analysis of high school students' practices of modelling with unstructured data}, ISSN={["1467-8535"]}, DOI={10.1111/bjet.13253}, abstractNote={Abstract}, journal={BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY}, author={Jiang, Shiyan and Nocera, Amato and Tatar, Cansu and Yoder, Michael Miller and Chao, Jie and Wiedemann, Kenia and Finzer, William and Rose, Carolyn P.}, year={2022}, month={Jul} }
 @article{nocera_2022, title={Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching}, volume={62}, ISSN={["1748-5959"]}, DOI={10.1017/heq.2021.63}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={1}, journal={HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY}, author={Nocera, Amato}, year={2022}, month={Feb}, pages={127–130} }
 @article{nocera_2022, title={The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963}, volume={127}, ISSN={["1937-5239"]}, DOI={10.1093/ahr/rhac310}, abstractNote={Dallas Hanbury’s title says a great deal about this unflashy, descriptive, and concise history. The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898–1963 is a book about public library systems in the South developed for white southerners and how African Americans struggled for library access during the first part of the twentieth century. Hanbury’s title may cue the reader into another important feature: this book is driven by its subject matter, not broader meaning-making or historical interpretation. Hanbury does an amiable job in covering significant historical ground, even featuring some original primary source research, but missing from the picture is an interpretative framework that might provide greater resonance to Hanbury’s narrative. Indeed, he does little to guide his readers. Historical interventions and analysis are largely cast aside. This book is a well-researched and detailed portrayal of Black America’s engagement with public libraries, but Hanbury largely falls flat on scholarly impact.}, number={3}, journal={AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW}, author={Nocera, Amato}, year={2022}, month={Nov}, pages={1520–1521} }