No More Robots: Building Kids’ Character, Competence, and Sense of Place ([Re]thinking Environmental Education, Band 2) - Hardcover

Coulter, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433124726 ISBN 13: 9781433124723

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This book was named a 2015 Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title. Place-based education offers a compelling opportunity to engage students in the life of their community. More than just taking a field trip, participants in a place-based project make sustained efforts to make a difference and learn basic skills along the way. Academic concepts come to life as real-world problems are investigated from a local angle. Even global issues can be connected to the community, such as the high school in Missouri that linked local land-use choices to the «dead zone» in the Gulf of Mexico. For teachers, place-based projects offer a chance for professional revitalization as they orchestrate complex and meaningful learning environments that go well beyond scripted curriculum mandates. Both teachers and students benefit from a new level of agency as they take ownership of their work. Drawing on his own experience as a teacher and more than a decade of work supporting teachers in crafting their own projects, the author outlines the many benefits of place-based education and describes the challenges that must be overcome if we are to realize its potential.

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Bob Coulter, Ed.D., is currently the director of the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center, a field site managed by the Missouri Botanical Garden. Previously, he was an award-winning elementary grade teacher.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1433124726
• ISBN 13: 9781433124723
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 113
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: GPSR Kontakt; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Deutschland