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ERIC Number: EJ572935
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0042-0859
Learning to Coconstruct Critical Learning Processes in an Urban School-University Partnership.
Blue, Elfreda; Collins, James L.
Urban Education, v32 n5 p577-590 Jan 1998
Describes a two-year urban school-university collaboration on improving writing instruction for fifth graders. The project, named Rethink/Rewrite, focuses on students reexamining information from their social studies textbooks after studying alternative materials about the same historical periods by African Americans and native peoples. (MMU)
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, College School Cooperation, Critical Thinking, Elementary School Curriculum, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades, Minority Groups, Social Studies, Textbook Content, Urban Education, Urban Schools, Urban Universities, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: African Americans; New York (Buffalo)
Note: Theme issue: "School University Partnerships in Urban Settings."