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Starnes, Bobby Ann – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1999
Despite a growing interest in the relationship between community and classroom, there is no shared understanding of basic issues about roles and responsibilities. Teachers can use the community as a learning laboratory by connecting the content studied to aspects of the local community. Characteristics of successful learning-lab programs, barriers…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Learning Strategies
