On an overpass in North Portland overlooking Interstate 5, Kathryn Nock and Jordan Stokes are taking stock of the neighborhood, including nearby Harriet Tubman Middle School. “It’s kind of hard to ...
Growing up in a rural farming community, Dr. Jodie Winship understood that education was important but, for many, not possible due to poverty, commitments to family farming businesses and a host of ...
What is Place-based Learning? Place-based learning is an instructional approach that focuses on developing student’s sense of place and learning through exploring their environment. Thus, most ...
“Where are we?” is the sentence that opens Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy and Place-Based Education: From Abstract to the Quotidian (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Together, the essays in the ...
NEWBURYPORT — An exciting initiative going on in the Newburyport schools these days is called place-based education. It involves a simple, but often overlooked strategy: getting students out of their ...
Urban communities are typically remarkably diverse in residents’ backgrounds, values, and views of the good life. The “community,” then, is held together by a staggering number of relationships, ...
WASHINGTON — The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced today an award of $5.1 million dollars to fund 12 place-based education projects ...
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