Growing Up American /
Edited by Peter Nagourney & Susan Steiner.
- 1st ed.
- Washington, D.C. : Wadsworth Pub., 1972.
- xiii, 456 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
0534000878
ED359537 ERIC
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, General.
920 / NAG
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.
0534000878
ED359537 ERIC
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, General.
920 / NAG