According to Whom? Helping Students Analyze Contrasting Views of Reality.

Wolff, Mary Anne

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Publication Date: 1986

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According to Whom? Helping Students Analyze Contrasting Views of Reality.

Wolff, Mary Anne

Educational Leadership, v44 n2 p36-41 Oct 1986

Recommends the frame of reference method in helping students learn to recognize bias in the questions an author asks, the evidence gathered, and the conclusions drawn. Describes a high school writing-anthropology unit on the Kung San society. Discusses the potentials, problems, and school-linked constraints in using frame of reference models. (IW)

Descriptors: Anthropology, Bias, Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness, Instructional Innovation, Secondary Education, Student Development, Teacher Improvement, Teaching Conditions, Teaching Load, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Units of Study

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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