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Practicing to teach: oral history in education.

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| June 22, 2006 | McCardle, Lydia W.; Edwards, Cheryl L. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

Since 2000, two teacher educators have collaborated to develop and implement an interdisciplinary service-learning project in which senior-level teacher candidates have participated. Oral history provides the vehicle for service-learning. Each of the candidates identifies, interviews, and writes an oral history on a woman who experienced World War II, on the home front or in the armed forces, as a teenager or young adult. By writing the oral histories, the candidates preserved history and learned history, writing, and pedagogical practices.

Introduction

In a linear, top-down model of teacher education, a professor tells about, and ...

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