<p>Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people’s attention beyond the classroom to the world as it actually is, and to engage them in the process of devising solutions to the social and environmental problems they will confront as adults. This approach can increase students’ engagement with learning and enhance their academic achievement.</p>  <p>Envisioned as a primer and guide for educators and members of the public interested in incorporating the local into schools in their own communities, this book explains the purpose and nature of place- and community-based education and provides multiple examples of its practice. The detailed descriptions of learning experiences set both within and beyond the classroom will help readers begin the process of advocating for or incorporating local content and experiences into their schools.</p>

Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sobel, David

Smith, Gregory A.

Sociology

Routledge

History

Americas

Education and the Environment: Learning to Live With Limits (Suny Series in Environmental Public Policy)

The work combines a sense of vision and practicality and touches on the major issue of the conceptual needs and limitations of contemporary education.

Education and the Environment: Learning to Live with Limits (Suny Series in Environmental Public P)

Business & Money

Economics

State University of New York Press

State Univ of New York Pr

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Computers & Technology

Medtext Medical Pub Co

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