Bringing Learning Together: A Teacher and Her Students Implement the Foxfire Approach. Core Practices in Action.

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ERIC Number: EJ615506

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2000

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Bringing Learning Together: A Teacher and Her Students Implement the Foxfire Approach. Core Practices in Action.

Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, v5 n2 p8-12 Sum 2000

Students in a combined grade 3-4 in a charter school in Asheville, North Carolina, chose the topics and ways to demonstrate their learning to fulfill history curriculum requirements. Their choices of local historical architecture and traditional quilt-making spiraled out to include photography, historical fiction, and quilted pillows, which were eventually exhibited at city hall. (TD)

Descriptors: Active Learning, Charter Schools, Educational Practices, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning, History Instruction, Learner Controlled Instruction, Mixed Age Grouping, Photography, Place Based Education, Student Projects, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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