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Oral History Review 2008 35(1):86-87; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohn016
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Oral History Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, Please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The Oral History Project: Connecting Students to Their Community, Grades 4–8

M. Gail Hickey

Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne

THE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT: CONNECTING STUDENTS TO THEIR COMMUNITY, GRADES 4–8. By Diane Skiffington Dickson, Dick Heyler, Linda G. Reilly, and Stephanie Romano. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2006. 1501 pp. Softbound, $19.50.

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The Oral History Project describes a middle school project that began with a statewide effort to improve students’ language arts achievement scores. Pennsylvania educators proposed an integrative instructional model that would involve adolescents in intergenerational interviews. Teachers implemented the model in a variety of settings. This book represents Pennsylvania educators’ attempt to share the integrative intergenerational interview model with others.

Donald Graves, a nationally known expert in language arts education and author of the Foreword, asserts the instructional model represented in The . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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