Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)

Great text for understanding the benefit of place and community based learning. It is full of successful examples of connecting the local school with the local community.

Great discussion of place based and community based learning as a means for creating future stewards.

It is a Good book like new and teaches how to advocate for students from school and community I learned a lot

I read this book for a class... No "profound" information can necessarily be found after the introductory chapters. This book is horribly repetitive and terribly boring. Just read the first chapter on Amazon rather than purchasing.

If you care about children as people, if you care about the future of the United States as a viable society, read this book! It offers the only sane way to educate our youth to live intelligently on this rapidly changing planet. The outworn "conventions" embodied in "No Child Left Behind" only promote the same perspective on what education is for that has brought us to this stage of imminent planetary danger. What is needed, as the authors so ably demonstrate, is an approach to education that combines the social needs of a child's soul with the ecological needs of planet Earth. This is accomplished through introducing a curriculum based on local, community-centered areas of interest: environmental, social, and economic. It is easy to incorporate the knowledge from all disciplines into such programs, once the community, the school district, and the teaching staff all agree that it really is a brilliant idea. In fact, some of the greatest successes described in this book occurred in what once were among the most problematic of America's communities.