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Assuming Identities, Enhancing Understanding: Applying Active Learning Principles to Research Projects
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Williams, Victoria C. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2006
This paper describes a pedagogical technique employed for an interdisciplinary course on Cold War America. Students had to "become" a fictional person and discuss how political and social changes during the Cold War era would have impacted that person. By doing a semester-long project that required primary source research, this…
Descriptors: United States History, Conflict, Active Learning, Primary Sources