The Foxfire Approach

Inspiration for Classrooms and Beyond

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This collection of essays by Foxfire practitioners represents the wide range of adaptations by educators of the pedagogical orientation of the Foxfire Magazine and Foxfire Programs for Teachers. Former students in the magazine class at Rabun County High School share the continuing impact of that experience on their lives, including a former student who is pioneering the magazine project with her sixth grade class. An early childhood teacher make a passionate, articulate case for instruction guided by the Foxfire Core Practices. And a former school administrator shares his experiences as guidance to current school administrators in enabling then supporting teachers to implement instruction guided by Foxfire’s Core Practices.
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—including how 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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Preliminary Material
著者: Hilton Smith and J. Cynthia McDermott
页码: i–xvii
No Inert Learning Accepted at Foxfire!
著者: J. Cynthia McDermott and Hilton Smith
页码: 1–9
The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center
著者: Barry Stiles
页码: 11–12
Sound Reasoning
How the Foxfire Boys Emerged and Became a Community Institution
著者: George Reynolds
页码: 13–17
Nurturing Civic Involvement
From Foxfire to Place-Based Education
著者: Gregory A. Smith
页码: 19–30
Experiential Education
Exploring Foxfire and Other Approaches to Teaching
著者: Clifford E. Knapp
页码: 31–43
Looking Home to Find My Way Forward
Insights from a Foxfire Student
著者: Lacy Hunter Nix
页码: 45–51
We Are Foxfire
著者: Joy Phillips
页码: 53–55
Core Practices in Use
著者: Sara Alice Tucker
页码: 57–64
Foxfire and the Community
Making Real Introductions for 50 Years
著者: Katie Lunsford
页码: 65–72
From Rabun County to Yonji County
The Foxfire Approach and Community-Based Education in Rural China
著者: Sara G. Lam
页码: 73–82
Foxfire Goes to University
The Dance and the Disruptions
著者: Jan Buley
页码: 83–91
The Foxfire Course for Teachers
A Description of How It Works
著者: Kiel Harell
页码: 101–113
From Active Learning to Activist Learning
Foxfire and the Bridge from Classroom to Community
著者: Janet E. Rechtman
页码: 115–120
Project Based Learning, a Center for Design Class and Foxfire
著者: Keith Phillips
页码: 121–127
Foxfire as a Need-Satisfying, Non-Coercive Process
著者: J. Cynthia McDermott
页码: 129–131
Eliot Wigginton’s Relational Pragmatism
著者: Frank Margonis
页码: 133–142
Research
How Do We Know Foxfire Approach to Teaching and Learning Works?
页码: 143–154
Some Concluding Thoughts
著者: George Wood
页码: 155–157
Contributors
著者: Hilton Smith and J. Cynthia McDermott
页码: 159–161
Educational Researchers and their students
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