Place-based education rejects generic models in favor of locale-specific approaches.
Evidence
In his recent article, “Place-Based Education: Learning To Be Where We Are,” Smith (2002) writes, “Because place-based education is by its nature specific to particular locales, generic curricular models are inappropriate” (p. 587). Smith does, however, offer five approaches to place-based learning that can focus educational research into place-based practices: (a) local cultural studies, (b) local nature studies, (c) community issue-investigation and problem-solving, (d) local internships and entrepreneurial opportunities, and (e) induction into community decision making. — David A. Gruenewald, The Best of Both Worlds, 103
Categorization
- XREF: Smith’s five approaches give concrete methodological handles for how place-based field learning (Reading the Landscape) and eco-justice pedagogy can actually merge in practice. — connects to: Place-based education requires place-specific balancing of economic and environmental concerns; Abstracted theory that loses local situatedness betrays Cultural Studies’ core method.; A critical pedagogy of place merges localized action with geography-aware critical pedagogy. — David A. Gruenewald, The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical…, 83 (+1 more)
Related
- A critical pedagogy of place merges localized action with geography-aware critical pedagogy. (similarity 0.88)
- Place-based and critical pedagogies split along rural-ecological versus urban-social lines. (similarity 0.86)
- Place-based education requires place-specific balancing of economic and environmental concerns (similarity 0.86)
- Education should both serve the well-being of actual places and confront dominant cultural assumptions. (similarity 0.85)
- Place-based environmental schooling can exist without critiquing modernity’s assumptions (similarity 0.81)
- Decolonization and reinhabitation become twin mutually-implied goals of place pedagogy. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- A critical pedagogy of place merges localized action with geography-aware critical pedagogy.
#expands(0.85) — David A. Gruenewald, The Best of Both Worlds, 83 - Abstracted theory that loses local situatedness betrays Cultural Studies’ core method.
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