No More Robots

Building Kids’ Character, Competence, and Sense of Place

von Bob Coulter

113 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: [Re]thinking Environmental Education
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften Schulen und Vorschulen Grundschule und Sekundarstufe I
• ISBN: 9781433124723
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.08.2014
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York