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| Project Leader: | Eliel Hinojosa elielhinojosajr@tamu.edu Teaching, Learning & Culture |
| Faculty Mentor: | Lynn Burlbaw, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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Fall 2017: TBD |
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Team Size:
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6 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Participants will have the opportunity to earn co-authorship in a paper and/or presentation. Additionally, students have the opportunity to gain research and academic writing experience as well as earn research credit.
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Team Needs:
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Participants must be accountable and self-motivated with a strong work ethic. Participants should enjoy gathering information verbally as well as through analysis of printed materials.
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Description:
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As middle school students study world cultures their depth of understanding is often limited by the lack of biographical information from the people in those cultures. Historical narratives and the biographies of people from around the world can provide students with greater understanding of the economic, social, political and environmental factors that shape/shaped their lives. Participants in this project will work to collect oral histories and/or recorded histories from people who represent their particular region. The objective is to collect historical accounts for the purpose of preparing them for use by the middle school social studies teacher. While the curriculum of the sixth-grade World Cultures course calls for an analysis of the overall society of the area studied, we hope to engage students more profoundly by allowing them to interact with first-hand accounts of real people whose lives are/were affected by the unique facets of their country. First-hand accounts will be gathered through personal interview as well as through analyzing recorded materials. Upon the completion of data gathering it is our intention to make the narratives suitable for middle school use and then compile them into a collection for use by the middle school social studies teacher. Additionally, this research will be conducted with the goal of earning a publication in a historical or educational peer-reviewed journal.
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