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Maguire, T. O. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1994
A former editor of this journal, 1989-91, selects an outstanding article from his tenure that illuminates the research merits of creativity, planning, and skepticism in the work of Milton Ezra LaZerte, a prominent Alberta educator in the first half of this century. The article selected describes LaZerte's learning theories and several…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Innovation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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McKinney, Linda J.; Fry, Pamela G. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1994
Discusses the use of life stories as a strategy for validating student life experiences, developing tolerance for and appreciation of other cultures and improving student attitudes about themselves and their peers. Describes a literature-based, college-level course for inservice teachers in which life stories were the dominant theme. (CFR)
Descriptors: Biographies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Images, Cultural Pluralism
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Shackleton, J. R. – History of Education, 1990
Presents the lives and careers of Jane Marcet and Harriet Martineau and their contributions to the dissemination and popularization of political economics in early nineteenth-century education. Places their ideas about laissez-faire capitalism in historical context. Stresses the significance of their role as female writers and educators. (CH)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Capitalism, Diffusion (Communication)
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Johnson, Nancy M.; Ebert, M. Jane – Reading Teacher, 1992
Provides a rationale for organizing history instruction around children's trade books. Presents a sample unit on the American Revolution that has been used successfully with intermediate-grade students. Describes an approach that is unique in its dual focus on students' affective responses to literature and their learning of content. (MG)
Descriptors: Biographies, Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, History Instruction
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George, Hermon, Jr. – Black Scholar, 1992
These volumes offer a blend of genres, authors, and purposes. Specific portraits are provided for each volume in chronological order. The central historical and educational values are in the view that the books give of the world of petit-bourgeois African-American women at the turn of the century. (SLD)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Black Achievement, Black Culture
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Walker, Clarence E. – Multicultural Education, 1993
Discusses the failure of filmmaker Spike Lee to grapple with the real politics of Malcolm X before and after he left the Nation of Islam. Acknowledging the complexity of the man and his context would avoid creating a mythical figure similar to Oliver Stone's movie "JFK." (SLD)
Descriptors: Activism, Biographies, Black Culture, Black History
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Page, Ed – New England Journal of History, 1990
Provides biographical sketches of two Revolutionary War soldiers from New England, Joseph Plumb Martin and Seth Bullard. Emphasizes methods that explain how the war was fought and make the struggles real rather than mythical. Recommends using local sources and records and discusses recreated Revolutionary War units. Includes excerpts from Martin's…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction
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Fisher, Bradley J. – Teaching Sociology, 1991
Examines the use of life histories as a method for explaining successful aging patterns. Describes a life-history research project in which undergraduates personalize material learned in social gerontology courses, integrating the life experience and theories. Sensitizes students to the impact of social forces on successful aging. Argues this…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Aging Education, Autobiographies, Biographies
Wales, Andrew – Arts and Activities, 1998
Uses the biography and work of M. C. Escher to introduce a unit on art history. Tells about Escher's influence not only on artists, but also on mathematicians and physicists. Outlines a student project in which students employed one of these themes: impossible geometry, rotating symmetry, or geometry. (DSK)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art History, Artists
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Nespor, Jan – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2004
The article explores the complexities of educational scale-making. "Educational scales" are defined as the spatial and temporal orders generated as pupils and teachers move and are moved through educational systems; scales are "envelopes of spacetime" into which certain schoolbased identities (and not others) can be folded.…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Teaching Conditions, School Space, Educational Facilities
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Blair, Meg – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2005
Bella Stavisky was born in New York City on July 24, 1920. She was born to activism: her father's butcher shop was called the Live and Let Live Meat Market, in protest of WWI. Her parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and when her father died there was no son to say Kaddish for him, so 13-year-old Bella marched into Temple each day for a year to…
Descriptors: Jews, Civil Rights, Lawyers, Court Litigation
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Middleton, Sue – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
The academic study of Education (as a social, historical, and theoretical phenomenon) is complicated by the fact of our immersion in it. This paper combines Said's idea of "contrapuntal reading" with Bourdieu's notion of reflexivity to explore what happens when students on an Education course directly confront the fact of their everyday…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Biographies, Foreign Countries
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Harding, Jennifer – Teaching in Higher Education, 2002
This article discusses a teaching and research initiative in which 12 third-year undergraduate students and a lecturer worked as volunteers at a local drop-in centre for homeless men and women, and subsequently conducted 49 life history interviews there. Students were asked to keep a diary, recording field observations and reflections on stories…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Undergraduate Students, Research Methodology, Biographies
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Enslin, P. A.; Button, A.; Chakane, M.; de Groot, M.; Dison, L. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
A Biographical Questionnaire (BQ) has been used in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand since the mid-80s, to identify potential to succeed at university among applicants who have not met the requirements for automatic admission. As the key instrument in a special admissions process, the BQ's history and assumptions are…
Descriptors: College Students, Measures (Individuals), Humanities, Questionnaires
Rodriguez, Luis J. – 1993
This autobiographical narrative describes the early life of Luis J. Rodriguez, a journalist and poet who was immersed in the youth gang culture of Los Angeles (California). Framed by the story of the pull of the gang life for the poet's son, it recounts his experiences from his childhood on the United States-Mexico border through his family's…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Biographies, Delinquency
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