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Growing Up American /

by Nagourney, Peter; Steiner, Susan.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Wadsworth Pub., 1972Edition: 1st ed.Description: xiii, 456 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0534000878.Subject(s): Acculturation | Elementary Education | Elementary School Students | Elementary School Teachers | Fiction | Higher Education | Institutes (Training Programs) | Language Arts | Literary Criticism | Literary Devices | Reader Response | Summer Programs | Thematic Approach | United States Literature | Collected Works, GeneralSummary: This collection represents the record of a summer institute held in 1989 at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth (Minnesota) in which 40 elementary school teachers and 4 college instructors read and discussed American fiction centering on the theme of initiation/challenge/change. After a beginning section which presents background information, the collection offers the following articles: "Life, Literature and Literary Criticism: Some Reflections" (John P. Schifsky); "Five Answers to a Frowning Question" (Leo J. Hertzel); "Participants' Responses"; "Literature and Ethics in a Sixth Grade Classroom" (Cary Werner); "Confronting Our Beliefs: Literature and Human Experience" (Robert McKeown); and "Teaching Elementary School Children: Some Personal Values" (Jeanne Webb). The collection concludes with a list of the institute participants and an evaluator's report. (SAM)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This collection represents the record of a summer institute held in 1989 at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth (Minnesota) in which 40 elementary school teachers and 4 college instructors read and discussed American fiction centering on the theme of initiation/challenge/change. After a beginning section which presents background information, the collection offers the following articles: "Life, Literature and Literary Criticism: Some Reflections" (John P. Schifsky); "Five Answers to a Frowning Question" (Leo J. Hertzel); "Participants' Responses"; "Literature and Ethics in a Sixth Grade Classroom" (Cary Werner); "Confronting Our Beliefs: Literature and Human Experience" (Robert McKeown); and "Teaching Elementary School Children: Some Personal Values" (Jeanne Webb). The collection concludes with a list of the institute participants and an evaluator's report. (SAM)

Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.

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