Overview
- This book reflects the experiences of the variety of educators influenced by Foxfire, from students involved in the Foxfire Magazine, to K-12 teachers adapting the Foxfire Approach to their respective classrooms, to professors tracing Foxfire’s pedagogical heritage
- Teachers and school administrators will find inspiration and guidance for considering how to implement the Foxfire Core Practices for students at all grade levels, all subjects, and all demographics
- The essays in this book provide an informed assessment of the potential of the Foxfire Approach
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Participants in Foxfire’s Program for Teachers, from early childhood teachers to college professors, describe their adaptations of the Foxfire Approach for instruction at all grade levels, all subjects and all demographics – includinghow they coped with the challenges they faced. One practitioner describes how she used the Core Practices to design instruction in rural China. We have an engaging essay focused on our summer courses for teachers, based on extensive observations and interview of participants attending those courses.
Several essays explore the pedagogical roots of the Foxfire Approach, as well as its value in providing instruction today which engages the students in the content and results in durable learning.
Readers can read straight through the book, beginning with a short historical introductory essay, or skip around to topics of interest to assemble an informed assessment of the potential of the Foxfire Approach.
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Book Title: The Foxfire Approach
Book Subtitle: Inspiration for Classrooms and Beyond
Editors: Hilton Smith, J. Cynthia McDermott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-564-7
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-564-7Published: 08 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 162
Topics: Education, general