Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ433694
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1991
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7996
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New Worlds from Old: An Experience in Oral History at the Elementary School Level.
Hirshfield, Claire
Social Studies, v82 n3 p110-14 May-Jun 1991
Recounts a Philadelphia Alliance for Teaching Humanities in the Schools (PATHS) oral history project developed by Pennsylvania State faculty members and elementary school teachers. Delineates the project's objectives. Explains that students from various ethnic and racial backgrounds interviewed family members and created a local history resource book from their research. (CH)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cultural Education, Data Collection, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Family History, Higher Education, Immigrants, Local History, Multicultural Education, Oral History, Personal Narratives, Program Content, Social History, Social Studies, Student Research, Teacher Role, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
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