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Download full textLimbert, Claudia A. – 1992
A writing course (adapted from Eliot Wigginton's "Foxfire" method) for college freshmen and sophomores is taught in a way that is not only important to the students concerned but to their community--a valley in the "rust belt" of Pennsylvania--as a whole. The course differs from the usual writing-in-the-social-sciences course…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Family History, Higher Education
Peer reviewedCarroll, Rives – Social Studies, 1985
Describes a year-and-a-half-long history project that involved elementary students in exploring their community's past. Students took field trips, interviewed community persons, taped oral histories, painted murals, and produced a dramatic musical based on their community's history. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Study, Course Descriptions, Elementary Education
