Place-Based

Pedagogy

Place-Based Education

• Help communities through employing students and school staff in solving community problems

• students' local community as one of the primary resources for learning

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Place-Based Education

• Promotes learning that is rooted in what is local—the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of a particular place - that is, in students’ own “place” or immediate schoolyard, neighborhood, town or community

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Place-Based Education

• Students can lose “sense of place” through focusing on national or global issues

• Students should first have a grounding in the history, culture and ecology of their surrounding environment before moving on to broader subjects

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Place-Based Education

• Hands-on, project-based and always related to something in the real world

• Gain an understanding more about the history of their community and the people in it

Nisqually River, Mt. Rainier

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Questions?

BJ Shaw (2006) Stegosaurus sp. at American Museum of Natural History, New York