Place-based education: Learning to be where we are

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 584-594

  Smith, Gregory A ^a  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0000140449     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170208300806     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. John Dewey, School and Society, in Martin Dworkin, ed., Dewey on Education (New York: Teachers College Press, 1959), pp. 76-78.
2. Gary Paul Nabhan and StephenTrimble, The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994), pp. 106-7.
3. Jim Cummins and Dennis Sayers, Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural IlliteracyThrough Global Learning Networks (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
4. Carol Stumbo, "Teachers and Learning," Harvard Educational Review, Spring 1989, pp. 87-97.
5. Rural Challenge Research and Evaluation Program, Living and Learning in Rural Schools and Communities: A Report to the Annenberg Rural Challenge (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1999), pp. 41-46.
6. Ibid., pp. 52-57.
7. Willard Waller, The Sociology of Teaching (1932; reprint, New York: Wiley, 1967).
8. The Orion Society has been an active sponsor of place-based education that focuses on natural phenomena. A variety of helpful teaching ideas can be found in Stories in the Land: A Place-Based Environmental Anthology (Great Barrington, Mass.: Orion Society, 1998); and Clare Walker Leslie, John Tallmadge, and Tom Wessels, Into the Field: A Guide to Locally Focused Teaching (Great Barrington, Mass.: Orion Society, 1999).
9. The Orion Society has been an active sponsor of place-based education that focuses on natural phenomena. A variety of helpful teaching ideas can be found in Stories in the Land: A Place-Based Environmental Anthology (Great Barrington, Mass.: Orion Society, 1998); and Clare Walker Leslie, John Tallmadge, and Tom Wessels, Into the Field: A Guide to Locally Focused Teaching (Great Barrington, Mass.: Orion Society, 1999).
10. See the account of the Environmental Middle School in Gregory Smith and Dilafruz Williams, eds., Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving Education, Culture, and the Environment (New York: State University of New York Press, 1999), pp. 79-102.
11. David Hagstrom, "The Denali Project," in Gregory Smith, ed., Public Schools That Work: Creating Community (New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 68-85.
12. Nancy Nagel, Teaching Through Real-World Problem Solving: The Power of Integrative Teaching (New York: Corwin, 1996).
13. Larry F. Guthrie and Grace Pung Guthrie, "Linking Classrooms and Communities: The Health and Media Academies in Oakland," in Smith, pp. 1129-54.
14. Toni Haas, "Schools in Communities: New Ways to Work Together," in Smith, pp. 215-46.
15. Personal communication, February 2001.
16. Rural Challenge Research and Evaluation Program, pp. 63-68.
17. Gerald Lieberman and Linda Hoody, Closing the Achievement Gap: Using the Environment as an Integrating Context (San Diego: State Education and Environment Roundtable, 1999).