Place-Based Learning Partnerships

Catalog description

Place-Based Education connects learning to communities, the world, and to student’s cultures and family context, allowing students to find their place in a world that extends beyond school. With intentionality, place-based learning builds agency, equity, community, and cultural competence. It provides a context for learning through four dimensions: motivational, instructional, environmental, and cultural. In this course, participants will explore and build community partnerships and cultural connections, and examine the ways in which schools and classrooms incorporate and celebrate these aspects or marginalize certain communities or cultural behaviors. In addition, participants will develop policies that are responsive to the diverse cultures within their communities and incorporate community partnerships in the development and implementation of curricula.