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Childhood Education | 2 |
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Gilstrap, Robert L. | 2 |
Evens, Doris | 1 |
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Book/Product Reviews | 1 |
Opinion Papers | 1 |
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Gilstrap, Robert L.; Evens, Doris – Childhood Education, 1996
Supports the return of folktales to school curriculum. Provides a list of suggested activities as well as a dozen popular national and international folktale books for use in the middle grades. Claims that folktales can be used to master content-rich material in the middle grades and allow students to explore relationships with their own culture…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Education, Curriculum Design, Folk Culture
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Gilstrap, Robert L. – Childhood Education, 1995
Reviews: "How to Get Your Teaching Ideas Published: A Writer's Guide to Educational Publishing" (Stangl); "Early Childhood Curriculum: Developmental Bases for Learning and Teaching" (Wortham); "Investigating Mathematics with Young Children" (Althouse); "When Children Write: Critical Revisions of the Writing Workshop" (Lensmire); and "Cooperative…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Design