Place-Based Ed.
When did place based education come into effect?
Mid 1990s
Who was one of the three teachers involved in the creation of PRISM.
A. Victoria Newberry
B. Elaine Senechal
C Bob Stevenson
A. Victoria Newberry
_____ occurs when people take steps to restore social and environmental practices that are both beneficent and sustainable over the long term.
contributing to the creation of a food system that is nutritious, safe, flexible and resilient.
Reinhabitation
In 2002 ACE students helped pass a law that gives ____ the same rights to protection as endangered species and participated in an ongoing campaign to prevent the siting of a Boston University bioterrorism laboratory in their neighbourhood.
Humans
_____ gives students the opportunity to analyze economic trends or to create their own businesses begin to see how economic well-being can derive from indivdual initiatives as well as the actions of transnational coronations,
Place based Learning experiences
This persons instructional choices allowed for students to question current powers arrangements and practices; the learning opportunities she presented also opened a path for students to become participants in the restoration of their community’s vitality and liveability. Who is this person?
Elaine Senechal - The ACE teacher
In the late 1990s, Teachers at the Kualapu’u School on Moloka’i, Hawai’i, were involved with work very similar to Senechal’s, but with 5th and 6t graders. With help from the University of Southern Illinois, they created a program that sought to engage students academically and address important community issues. What i the name or acronym for this program?
PRISM (Providing Resolutions with Integrity for a Sustainable Moloka’i)
Jan Zuckerman created a unit on the reintroduction of what animal to Oregon. This unit consisted of several different aspects touching on subjects such as: government play, affects on communities, US history, and ecosystems.
Wolves
What is place based education?
An educational approach that embraces both human and non-human communities.
It’s about striving to make the boundaries between schools and their environs more permeable by directing at least some parts of students school experience to local phenomena.
Name the former Place based educator that now works in an elementary school. When teaching history of the civil war this person assigns each student a gravestone of someone local who died in the war and asks the students to recreate the identities of some of these people. This gives the students a sense of connection and realism to the civil war, instead of just reading about it in a textbook.
David Sobel
When Senechal was hired as a teacher she formed the ——- group, in 2002, they able to purchase he lot across the school and turn it into a park for the students. The students focused on environmental justice issues.
ACE (Alternatives for Community and Enviroment)
To make sure the school remains available to the islands largely low-income students, Aka’ula School has intentionally kept its tuition to no more than $____ even though per year it costs closer to $____ per student. Local fundraising and grants have made this possible.
$1000 and $7000
West Coast
The Aka’ula school enrolled 45 students between the 5th and 8th grade, they hope to enroll 160 students eventually. The need to take these steps affirm ——— argument about the degree to whic schools regularities run counter to the more openended and less controlled aspects o a truly issue - and inquiry- based form of environmental eduction. Who‘s argument?
Bob Stevenson’s
A $50 million dollar national effort in the second have of the 1990s to strengthen rural schools.
The Rural challenge.
Give an example as to how Zuckermans experience reveals why teachers avoid exploration of controversial topics.
The protests from the opposing opinions against the wolves.
People came for her, her teaching, her unit plans, and said she was brainwashing the kids.
Many more.
Volk & Chesk’s five year study of Newberry and Lukonen’s earlier work at the Kualapu’u Schools provide some evidence for why the islands residents are so interested in supporting Their Place based educational approach. Give some examples of the evidence found.
In addition to enhancing students’ capacity to analyze environmental issues, make presentations at public meetings, and participate in activities aimed at addressing community issues, students also demonstrated significant gains in their ability to read diverse and complex texts, write papers and speak with clarity and confidence.
What educational researcher pushed the definition of place based education further by suggesting that it’s practitioners more explicitly incorporate the perspective of critical pedagogy
Gruenewald
Created by the Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, this program implement communitiy and place based approaches in an effort to increase social capital and preserve the environment.
Community-based School Environmental Educational Projects (CO-SEED)
Name two of the five domains the paper talks about for people who ar interesting in adopting place biased education. All in someway could contribute to local community developing and regeneration.
Cultural and historical investigations
environmental monitoring and advocacy
real world problem solving
entrepreneurialism
involved in public processes