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ERIC Number: EJ561943
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
From Fiction to Field Notes: Observing Ibo Culture in "Things Fall Apart."
Schur, Joan Brodsky
Social Education, v61 n7 p380-84 Nov-Dec 1997
Demonstrates how introducing students to African literature can appeal to their imaginations and encourage them to develop their insights into African culture. Outlines the procedures in a middle school class where the students are transformed into anthropologists as they read Chinua Achebe's, "Things Fall Apart." (MJP)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, African Literature, Anthropology, Authors, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture, Geographic Location, Global Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Middle Schools, Non Western Civilization, Physical Environment, Secondary Education, Social Studies, Social Systems, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Africa (Sub Sahara)