Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ549802
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Drawing on the Personal: "Roots" Papers in the Teaching of American History.
Dublin, Thomas
Social Studies, v88 n2 p61-64 Mar-Apr 1997
Describes an undergraduate course that draws parallels between the immigrant and ethnic experience of the students with similar issues on a national scale. The students write papers exploring their ethnic heritage and, if possible, collect oral histories from other family members. This research complements the assigned readings. (MJP)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Background, Cultural Interrelationships, Culture Contact, Ethnic Discrimination, Ethnicity, Family History, History Instruction, Immigrants, Local History, Oral History, Racial Discrimination, Secondary Education, Self Concept, Social Integration, Student Interests, Student Research, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
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