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Harrison, Lisa M., Ed.; Hurd, Ellis, Ed.; Brinegar, Kathleen, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2020
Originally published as a special issue of the "Middle School Journal," this book presents integrative curriculum as a foundational element of the middle school. By addressing the current gap in literature on curriculum integration in the middle grades, this text explores how learning can be organized around authentic concepts or…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Integrated Curriculum, Middle School Teachers, Teaching Methods
Roberts, Jay W. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents. As an increasingly popular pedagogical approach, experiential education encompasses a variety…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Service Learning, Social Theories, Educational Theories
Cousins, Emily, Ed.; Mednick, Amy, Ed. – 1999
Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) is a framework for comprehensive school improvement that uses the philosophy and pedagogy of Outward Bound to make learning more hands-on, project-based, and adventurous. One of the 10 ELOB design principles is service and compassion. This book by teachers in ELOB schools contains accounts of students'…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
Starnes, Bobby Ann; Carone, Angela – 1999
For over 30 years, Foxfire has been developing an approach to learning that is learner-centered and community-focused. Foxfire's initial success resulted from a successful student-produced magazine in a rural Georgia high school. Attempts to duplicate this success often overlooked the key ingredients, student choice and academic integrity, that…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Change Strategies, Classroom Environment, Educational Practices
Cumming, Jim – 1997
Community-based learning (CBL) is a structured approach to learning and teaching that connects meaningful community experience with intellectual development, personal growth, and active citizenship. Enthusiasm for CBL is emerging in Australia and elsewhere because it is seen as the following: strategy for whole-school reform, especially in…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Education, Community Organizations, Computer Uses in Education