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Download full textKerner, Howard A. – 1994
Suggesting that instructors approach literature from a multidisciplinary life-based stance, this paper presents syllabi, pedagogical techniques, and a student essay which illustrates a life-based approach to literary themes. The first section of the paper deals with creative curricular re-packaging of great literature in which traditional course…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedSchaafsma, David; Tendero, Antonio; Tendero, Jennifer – English Journal, 1999
Describes a year-long project created and undertaken by a group of 14 eighth-grade girls to conduct interdisciplinary research on teenage sexuality and pregnancy. The project involved reading and discussing fiction and nonfiction, conducting interviews with teenage mothers, writing and publishing a booklet, and mentoring a group of fifth- and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Junior High Schools
