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Direct linkCarlson, David Lee – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2007
Throughout seven years of teaching in urban schools, the author discovered that the most effective ways to teach difficult literary texts was to refer to students' out-of-school activities. In other words, to connect the "leaky edges of the "social outside"" with the "individual inside" is to create a curriculum of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Students, Low Achievement, Classics (Literature)
Chappas, Bess – 1977
This individualized program developed for students in grades 4-6 at Herman Hesse Elementary School in Georgia, is designed to provide the students with the basic library skills needed to make them independent learners in the media center. Activity sheets for student use comprise the major portion of the document. (Author/AWP)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation, Learning Modules, Learning Resources Centers
Trivisonno, Ann – 1987
The "problem-posing" education model of Paulo Freire takes as its departure point the life experience of the learner, rather than the teacher's knowledge. Ursuline College (Cleveland, Ohio) created several courses for returning adult students that were based on Freire's ideas. One course called "Humanities Focus on Life" is for…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Communication Skills, Continuing Education
Wood, George S., Jr., Ed.; Wood, Danny, Ed. – 1986
The following papers are included: "Schoolhouse in the Factory: The Phenomenology of Literacy" (Berlin); "The Self-Directed Learning Projects of Employed, Married Mothers" (Boyce); "The Forever Plan: Adult Men Who Continue in Postsecondary Education Compared with Those Who Drop Out" (Brown); "Burnout and Associated Factors among…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
