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Hoone, Claudia J. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1989
Argues the usefulness of timelines for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade history instruction, contending that timelines reveal history's unfolding better than fact-recall techniques. Presents ways to use timelines, including autobiographical, large display, and manipulative timelines, and combining timelines with biographies. Suggests timelines help…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Context Effect, Creative Writing
Esmaeli, Kateh – Literacy Harvest, 1993
Knowing and learning about students' lives are an essential part of teaching reading to adults. Student journals provide a way for teachers to know and respond to students' personal histories. Adult learners must value themselves and the knowledge they already possess in adult basic education and other realms. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adults
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Beeler, Lichelle; Hayes, Christina; Lewis, Felicia; Russell, Alicia; Moss, Glenda – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2004
Four African American teacher-researcher-participants contributed to this self-reflective autobiographical, narrative analysis of learning to teach, becoming certified, and teaching. Each participant reflected on her educational stories of experience, as all four were educated on White university campuses and transitioned to teaching in…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, African American Students, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Certification
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Gluck, Judith; Bluck, Susan; Baron, Jacqueline; McAdams, Dan P. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
This research uses an autobiographical approach to examine the relation of age to several aspects of wisdom. In Study 1 (N = 86), adolescents', young adults', and older adults' wisdom narratives were content-coded for the types of life situations mentioned and the forms that wisdom took. Types of life situations reported (e.g., life decisions)…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Autobiographies, Relationship, Age Differences
Quiroz, Pamela Anne – 1997
This paper examines the relationship between Latino students' identity formation and their interpretations of the connection between schooling and career. Autobiographies were written by 47 Mexican American and Puerto Rican students at the end of grade 8, and again by 27 of the same students during grade 11. Virtually all students were from poor…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Aspiration, Autobiographies, Education Work Relationship
Chinn, Phyllis Zweig, Comp. – 1988
This bibliography contains over 1,000 entries organized into seven sections. These include: (1) "Women in Science Bibliographies"; (2) "Journals and Periodicals Which Have Devoted Whole Issues or Frequent Articles to Women in Sciences"; (3) "Biographies and Autobiographies of Women Scientists"; (4) "Differences Between the Sexes--As Proposed by…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, College Mathematics, College Science
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) effects of creative drama instruction on the story grammar knowledge of field-dependent and field-independent primary grade students; (2) a content assessment…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Autobiographies, Bibliotherapy
Trujillo, Roberto G.; Rodriquez, Andres – 1984
The bibliography lists 610 creative works, written by Mexicans and their descendents living or having lived in what is now the United States, published as books, unpublished dissertations of book length, periodical titles that include both creative and critical literary writings on the Chicano experience, and video and sound recordings. The…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Audiotape Recordings, Autobiographies, Doctoral Dissertations
Miner, Joshua L.; Boldt, Joe – 1981
Joshua Miner recounts his 30 years' experience with people and places significant to the history of Adventure-Based Education and Outward Bound in the United States. Fourteen Outward Bound schools visited or assisted by Miner are described in chapters recording events such as the school's inception, daily activities, individuals enrolled, and…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Autobiographies, Delinquency, Disadvantaged Youth
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Long, Maxine M., Ed.; McCleary, William J., Ed. – English Record, 1980
The seven articles in this journal issue deal with the politics and practice of teaching writing. The articles focus on the following topics: (1) efforts to establish educational accountability, including competency based teacher education, licensing of teachers, and minimum competency testing; (2) methods for teaching students to use intuition in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Autobiographies, Basic Skills, Cohesion (Written Composition)
Nieto, Sonia – 2003
This book examines what can be learned from veteran teachers who not only continue to teach but also manage to remain enthusiastic about it despite deprivation and challenges. Nine chapters are: (1) "Teaching as Evolution" (e.g., lessons learned along the way and the promise of multicultural education); (2) "Teaching as…
Descriptors: Anger, Autobiographies, Cultural Differences, Democratic Values
Vavrus, Michael – 2002
This study hypothesized that discourses incorporating critical reflection on multicultural texts, lectures, and workshops in combination with autobiographical research on one's own teacher identity formation would deepen teacher candidates' realization of the importance of transformative multicultural education in teaching and learning and help…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Diversity (Student)
Swindells, Julia, Ed. – 1995
This collection explores the range of uses of autobiography from the 19th century to the present and from Africa, the United States, Middle East, France, New Zealand, and Britain. The chapters draw on a number of approaches, including historical and literary methods. They are frequently about the retrieval and reclamation of previously hidden or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Brookfield, Stephen D. – 1995
This book is a practical guide for teachers at the postsecondary level to improve their teaching by utilizing the principles of adult learning and becoming critically reflective teachers. Chapter 1 lays out the concept of reflection in general terms and then focuses on explaining what is distinctive about critical reflection. Chapter 2 explains…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Autobiographies, Classroom Environment, College Faculty
Monroe, Mark; Reyer, Carolyn, Ed. – 1994
In his autobiography, Mark Monroe relates his life experiences as a Lakota Sioux Indian in White America. The book begins with Monroe reminiscing about his happy childhood on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. In 1941 his family moved to Alliance, Nebraska, and his father Dakota. In 1941 his family moved to Alliance, Nebraska, and his father…
Descriptors: Activism, Alcoholism, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education
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