What is Place-Based Education? (and why should I care?)

Is this a place?

Is this a place?

Is this a place?

Defining Place-based Education

• "An approach to education that takes advantage of geography to make learning authentic, meaningful and engaging for learners." - Getting Smart (http://www.gettingsmart.com/)

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Why Place-based Education?

• "The US education system implicitly promotes the individualist pursuit of material wealth over productive citizenship...a focus on place and community would restore the proper focus of education." - Paul Theobald, Teaching the Commons

Deep Dive

• http://bit.ly/mineralpointpbe

Reflect

• What might be an example of PBE? Why?
• What is not an example of PBE? Why?
• How would you describe PBE to a colleague or a parent?

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