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A Double Role: Learning Foxfire as a Student, Learning Foxfire as a Teacher.

Diehn, Gwen – Hands On, 1991

Undergraduate teacher education students participated in the Foxfire instructional approach by developing field trip packages for elementary students visiting a farm and a garden/greenhouse. Describes problems with group dynamics among students and efforts to resolve problems. (KS)

Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Field Trips, Group Dynamics, Higher Education

"That's Just the Way It Is. Ha! But Don't You Believe It!"

Michel, Elinor – Hands On, 1994

A Foxfire teacher describes student reactions to a democratic approach implemented in an undergraduate teacher education course and an inservice teacher workshop. Goal was for participants to develop methods and activities that would involve their future K-12 students in active and democratic learning. (LP)

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Principles