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How Do We Know Foxfire Approach to Teaching and Learning Works?

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The Foxfire Approach

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I know why you are here. You’ve gotten this far in the book and you can see the value in the Foxfire Approach (fn) for your teaching. But you are concerned. Will your principal and colleagues at your school buy it? Will you be criticized if your students’ standardized test scores don’t go up? You’ve turned to this chapter for some assurance that Foxfire will make a difference in your students’ learning outcomes.

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  1. Piedmont College, Demorest, USA

    Hilton Smith

  2. Antioch University Los Angeles, USA

    J. Cynthia McDermott

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Williams, S.R., Hutcheson-Williams, W. (2016). Research. In: Smith, H., McDermott, J.C. (eds) The Foxfire Approach. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-564-7_18

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