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Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience. Twenty Years Teaching in a High School Classroom.

Wigginton, Eliot – 1986

In fall 1966, Eliot Wigginton took his first teaching job in Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, a semiprivate rural Georgia high school with both local and boarding students. This book is his account of his early struggle to control and interest his students, the genesis and development of the student-produced Foxfire publications, and his views on the…

Descriptors: Active Learning, Boarding Schools, Educational Principles, Educational Strategies