Contents: Preface. D.A. Gruenewald, G.A. Smith,
Introduction: Making Room for the Local. Part I:Models for
Place-Based Learning. C.E. Knapp, Place-Based Curricular and
Pedagogical Models: My Adventures in Teaching Through Community
Contexts. M. Graham, The Fringe of Nirvana: Aesthetic Places
and the Art Classroom. M. Sorensen, STAR: Service to All
Relations. J. Bartsch, Youth as Resources in Revitalizing
Communities. E. Seneschal, Environmental Justice in Egleston
Square. R. Barnhardt, Creating a Place for Indigenous
Knowledge in Education: The Alaska Native Knowledge Network.
Part II: Reclaiming Broader Meanings of Education. D.A.
Gruenewald, Place-Based Education: Grounding Culturally
Responsive Teaching in Geographical Diversity. R.M. Pyle, No
Child Left Inside: Nature Study as a Radical Act. R.
Tompkins, Overlooked Opportunity: Students, Educators, and
Education
Advocates Contributing to Community and Economic Development. P.
Theobald, J. Siskar, Place: Where Diversity and Community Can
Converge. Part III:Global Visions of the Local in Higher
Education.M.M. Morris, Place in Leadership Formation: The
Institute for Educational and Community Leadership. F.
Elbaz-Luwisch, Multiculturalism, Conflict, and Struggle: Place
as Meeting Ground in Israeli Education. J.I. Cameron,
Learning Country: A Case Study of Australian Place-Responsive
Education. M. Dubel, D. Sobel, Place-Based Teacher
Education. D.A. Gruenewald, G.A. Smith, Afterword: Creating
a Movement to Ground Learning in Place.
David A. Gruenewald, Washington State University, USA.
Gregory A. Smith, Lewis and Clark College, USA.
"Polished, clear, insightful, and meaningful.... This volume
amounts to nothing less than a complete rethinking of what
progressive education can be at its best and how education can be
reconceptualized as one of the central practices of a genuinely
democratic and sustainable society.... It is the kind of book that
has the potential to be transformative."
—Stephen Preskill
University of New Mexico"The editors and contributors are pioneers
in the field of educational theory, policy, and philosophy.... They
are opening new areas of inquiry and educational reform in ways
that promise to make this book in very short time into a
classic.... The practical applications and experiments included
reveal the richness of grassroots initiatives already underway to
bring educational theory and policy down to earth. While spanning
the richest and deepest intellectual ideas and concepts, the
stories told are the types that practitioners and teachers will be
able to relate to in their daily undertakings."
—Madhu Suri Prakash
The Pennsylvania State University
"Polished, clear, insightful, and meaningful.... This volume
amounts to nothing less than a complete rethinking of what
progressive education can be at its best and how education can be
reconceptualized as one of the central practices of a genuinely
democratic and sustainable society.... It is the kind of book that
has the potential to be transformative."Stephen Preskill,
University of New Mexico"The editors and contributors are pioneers
in the field of educational theory, policy, and philosophy.... They
are opening new areas of inquiry and educational reform in ways
that promise to make this book in very short time into a
classic.... The practical applications and experiments included
reveal the richness of grassroots initiatives already underway to
bring educational theory and policy down to earth. While spanning
the richest and deepest intellectual ideas and concepts, the
stories told are the types that practitioners and teachers will be
able to relate to in their daily undertakings."Madhu Suri Prakash,
The Pennsylvania State University"...a thorough and engaging volume
of topics and issues related to place-based education....I highly
recommend this book as a primary textbook in the increasing number
of university courses that focus on place-based education [and as]
as a supplementary resource in courses that focus on such topics as
culturally responsive teaching and development of aware and
responsive community leaders." Samuel S. Perkins, August 12, 2008,
Education Review "This volume significantly contributes to the
theory and practice of the emerging field of place-based education.
It informs, expands perspectives, and challenges the reader to
rethink the purposes of schooling. The potentially transformative
nature of this book makes it a recommended reading for all engaged
in reforming education and seeking to improve our world." MaryAnn
Davies, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2008, International Journal of
Multicultural Education"Without a doubt, Place-Based Education in
the Global Age is an important and timely collection of work.
Editors David A. Gruenewald and Gregory A. Smith do much to
position the individual stories of learners and teachers that are
found within this book at the forefront of a movement toward
education in local diversity." Jessica Hayes-Conroy, 2008, 23(2),
Journal of Research in Rural Education
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