Preservice student teachers engaged in a collaborative research initiative to examine the memory of the 1954 "Brown v. Topeka Board of Education" decision that culminated in a public performance. Ethnographic data were translated into performance texts through students' performances that confronted issues of privilege, race, and institutional…

This document presents the proceedings of the 20th Annual Research Forum held June 25, 2015, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following 21 action research papers: (1) History Lives! The Use of Simulations in a High School Social Studies Classroom (Lydia Adkins); (2) Using Francophone Music in the High…

Four essentials in staging film festivals and competitions are: facilities, films, equipment, and an audience. Basic steps in getting these essentials together are outlined. Surveying available facilities first helps you gauge the scale of the festival, estimate the likely costs and receipts, and plan for the projection equipment necessary.…

One-third of all Open University courses now contain project-work, in which the student has some freedom in designing his/her own learning activities.

In lieu of the traditional term paper, students in this Shakespeare class can form a production company and videotape scenes from one or more plays. (BD)

Describes a sixth grade project to build an observatory. (GB)

The project, by 11 Lees Junior College students, aims to record the histories and recollections of senior citizens in the area, put them in the college library, and make them available to historians and folklorists upon request. (NQ)

Describes how a project in buying and selling stocks helps teach students more about the American economic System. (Editor)

Outlines a personalized sculpture project for high school students. (SJL)

Instructions are given for a beginning project in mosaic. (SJL)