Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The Foxfire Approach

Inspiration for Classrooms and Beyond

  • Book
  • © 2016

Overview

Editors:
  1. Hilton Smith

    1. Piedmont College, Demorest, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. J. Cynthia McDermott

    1. Antioch University Los Angeles, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • This book reflects the experiences of the variety of educators influenced by Foxfire, from students involved in the Foxfire Magazine, to K-12 teachers adapting the Foxfire Approach to their respective classrooms, to professors tracing Foxfire’s pedagogical heritage
  • Teachers and school administrators will find inspiration and guidance for considering how to implement the Foxfire Core Practices for students at all grade levels, all subjects, and all demographics
  • The essays in this book provide an informed assessment of the potential of the Foxfire Approach

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. No Inert Learning Accepted at Foxfire!1

    • J. Cynthia Mcdermott, Hilton Smith
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center

    • Barry Stiles
    Pages 11-12

  4. Sound Reasoning

    • George Reynolds
    Pages 13-17

  5. Nurturing Civic Involvement

    • Gregory A. Smith
    Pages 19-30

  6. Experiential Education

    • Clifford E. Knapp
    Pages 31-43

  7. Looking Home to Find My Way Forward

    • Lacy Hunter Nix
    Pages 45-51

  8. We are Foxfire

    • Joy Phillips
    Pages 53-55

  9. Core Practices in Use

    • Sara Alice Tucker
    Pages 57-64

  10. Foxfire and the Community

    • Katie Lunsford
    Pages 65-72

  11. From Rabun County to Yonji County

    • Sara G. Lam
    Pages 73-82

  12. Foxfire Goes to University

    • Jan Buley
    Pages 83-91

  13. Administrative Support for the Foxfire Approach to Teaching and Learning

    • Edd Diden
    Pages 93-100

  14. The Foxfire Course for Teachers

    • Kiel Harell
    Pages 101-113

  15. From Active Learning to Activist Learning

    • Janet E. Rechtman
    Pages 115-120

  16. Project Based Learning, A Center for Design Class and Foxfire

    • Keith Phillips
    Pages 121-127

  17. Foxfire as a Need-Satisfying, Non-Coercive Process

    • J. Cynthia Mcdermott
    Pages 129-131

  18. Eliot Wigginton’s Relational Pragmatism

    • Frank Margonis
    Pages 133-142

  19. Research

    • Steven R. Williams, Wilma Hutcheson-Williams
    Pages 143-154

  20. Some Concluding Thoughts

    • George Wood
    Pages 155-157
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

"This collection of essays by Foxfire practitioners represents the wide range of adaptations by educators of the pedagogical orientation of the Foxfire Magazine and Foxfire Programs for Teachers. Former students in the magazine class at Rabun County High School share the continuing impact of that experience on their lives, including a former student who is pioneering the magazine project with her sixth grade class. An early childhood teacher make a passionate, articulate case for instruction guided by the Foxfire Core Practices. And a former school administrator shares his experiences as guidance to current school administrators in enabling then supporting teachers to implement instruction guided by Foxfire’s Core Practices.


Participants in Foxfire’s Program for Teachers, from early childhood teachers to college professors, describe their adaptations of the Foxfire Approach for instruction at all grade levels, all subjects and all demographics – includinghow they coped with the challenges they faced. One practitioner describes how she used the Core Practices to design instruction in rural China. We have an engaging essay focused on our summer courses for teachers, based on extensive observations and interview of participants attending those courses.


Several essays explore the pedagogical roots of the Foxfire Approach, as well as its value in providing instruction today which engages the students in the content and results in durable learning.


Readers can read straight through the book, beginning with a short historical introductory essay, or skip around to topics of interest to assemble an informed assessment of the potential of the Foxfire Approach.
"


Editors and Affiliations

  • Piedmont College, Demorest, USA

    Hilton Smith

  • Antioch University Los Angeles, USA

    J. Cynthia McDermott

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Foxfire Approach

  • Book Subtitle: Inspiration for Classrooms and Beyond

  • Editors: Hilton Smith, J. Cynthia McDermott

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-564-7

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-564-7Published: 08 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 162

  • Topics: Education, general

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation