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The Foxfire Course for Teachers

A Description of How It Works

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The above quotation comes from an interview with Harvey, a middle school social studies teacher, who was participating in the Foxfire Course for Teachers with fourteen others from around the state of Georgia. He was sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of the Guest House at the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center explaining the unique experience of spending a week with other teachers reflecting together on their classrooms, the work of John Dewey and the Foxfire Approach.

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  1. Kiel Harell
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  1. Piedmont College, Demorest, USA

    Hilton Smith

  2. Antioch University Los Angeles, USA

    J. Cynthia McDermott

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Harell, K. (2016). The Foxfire Course for Teachers. In: Smith, H., McDermott, J.C. (eds) The Foxfire Approach. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-564-7_13

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