Placed Based Education : Some Snippets
Some snippets from an interesting paper ( While the entire paper is interesting I found this portion to be all the more pertinent and have taken the liberty to remove the references and cull 600 odd words from a 21 page paper ) Place-Based education at Island Community School Aimee Howley, Marged Howley, Christi Camper and Heike Perko The Journal of Environment Education 42 (4), 216 – 236, 2011 Placed-Based Education (PBE) and Environmental Education (EE): Definitions and Comparisons PBE is a progressive form of education in which students use their own communities as the source of issues to investigate the location for learning, and, indeed, as an important motivation for learning. Its aim, according to some scholars, is to promote students’ understanding of the interdependence of their lives with those of others in their communities. To strengthen student-community connections, PBE offers opportunities for students to explore the geography, ecology, sociology, ...