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Esther June Kim – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background/Research Design: This ethnographic study explores how secondary students engaged with the history of Japanese American incarceration while participating in an archaeological dig at one of the prison camps used by the U.S. government during World War II, the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. Purpose/Research Question: Using…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Place Based Education, Japanese Americans, Secondary School Students
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Stephen Fairbanks – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2024
Drawing upon autoethnographic experience as a music educator, I make the assertion that transformative learning is particularly amplified in locations where a person encounters the unfamiliar, for those are often the precise places where an individual's habitus no longer holds efficacy. To build this argument, I propose that when inner…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Place Based Education, Cultural Capital
Crossland, Sean P. – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
This research was originally presented as a chapter in the doctoral dissertation "On Becoming a People's College: An Appreciative Inquiry." Appreciative Inquiry (Ai) is a participatory approach to organizational change focused on an affirmative topic choice. The topic choice of the dissertation was equity, democracy, and justice at the…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Hidden Curriculum, Community Colleges, Place Based Education
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Judith Hope Munter; Nathan Harkleroad; Manuel Cervantes; Andrea Tinajero – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
The urgent issues impacting the U.S. and global communities today open new horizons for deep inquiry into relevant, timely curriculum content and for re-examining parameters of education's role in the cultivation of new mindsets. Finding common ground will mean translating conceptions of justice from societal equity to environmental sustainability…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Experiential Learning, Agricultural Laborers, Educational Innovation
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Taormina J. Lepore; Lisa Lundgren; Daniel Lawver – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Field experiences are an important element of paleontological knowledge building. However, there is little information about the effects field experiences have on science stewardship and personal growth in high school learners. This pilot study analyzed the reflections of a group of female and male 9th grade U.S. high school students (N = 72) on…
Descriptors: Paleontology, High School Students, Field Experience Programs, Comparative Analysis
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Amy Sprowles; Jessica Smith; Patricia Siering; Steven Margell; Frank Shaughnessy; Alison O'Dowd; Kerri J. Malloy; Matthew P. Hurst; P. Dawn Goley; Lisa Morehead-Hillman; Borbolla Mazzag; Gillian Black; L. Chook Chook Hillman; Dale Oliver; Katlin R. Goldenberg; Angela Rich; Sonja Manor; Matthew D. Johnson; Eileen Cashman – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2024
Deficits in college degree attainment limit important perspectives and ways of knowing that inspire creativity and innovation. Disproportional outcomes for racially minoritized groups that are historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics exacerbate this problem and promote societal inequities, structural…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Indigenous Knowledge, STEM Education, Cultural Awareness
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Christopher C. Jadallah – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Farms and gardens are increasingly being recognized as dynamic educational settings through which learners can engage in a wide variety of activities and practices to connect with land, food, self, and community. Across these settings, teaching with political clarity represents a pathway for identifying, interrogating, and disrupting systems of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Gardening, Cultural Background, Political Attitudes
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Sabati, Sheeva; Beckett, Linnea; Cragun-Rehders, Kira; Najera, Alyssa; Hise, Katerina; Geiger, Anna – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Writing as both instructors and students who worked together in the undergraduate course "Water Justice," we reflect on the limits and possibilities of engaging in anticolonial teaching-learning practices within the ongoing contexts of settler colonialism and racial violence that shapes universities. We describe how we designed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Undergraduate Students, Social Justice, Water
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Liebtag, Emily – Childhood Education, 2018
Personalized learning offers instruction that matches students' learning preferences and specific interests. Taking innovative approaches to engaging with students' individual contexts and interests through place-based education can be particularly meaningful. Place-based education (PBE) is anytime, anywhere learning that leverages the power of…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Place Based Education, Internship Programs, School Business Relationship
Crosier, Scott James – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Given the current lack of connection between people and the natural environment, the goal of this research was to explore if and how an educational program could impact an individual's sense of place, and environmental stewardship attitudes and behaviors. To address this question, I examined these impacts with a cohort of participants in the UC…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Program Effectiveness, Conservation (Environment), Attitude Change
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Schulte, Ann K. – Rural Educator, 2018
Two teaching residency programs in northern California have provided some insight into graduates' preparation for, and inclination to pursue, teaching in a rural school. Both programs include early coursework that addresses the needs and strengths of rural communities and requires candidates to conduct an in-depth study of their placement…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Place Based Education, Preservice Teachers, Rural Areas
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Sprowles, Amy; Goldenberg, Katlin; Goley, P. Dawn; Ladwig, Steve; Shaughnessy, Frank J. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2019
At Humboldt State University (HSU), location is everything. Students are as drawn to our spectacular natural setting as they are to the unique majors in the natural resource sciences that the university has to offer. However, the isolation that nurtures the pristine natural beauty of the area presents a difficult reality for students who are…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Communities of Practice, Rural Schools, State Universities
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Iorio, Jeanne Marie; Hamm, Catherine; Parnell, Will; Quintero, Elizabeth – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2017
Neoliberalism, capitalist ideas, and the disastrous human-induced state of the environment are evidence of the lack of connection between humans and the earth, calling for a rethinking of the relationships between humans and the planet. As early childhood educators, we wonder about our role in rethinking these relationships and in particular, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Place Based Education, Environmental Education
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Sawyer, Adam; Rosales, Oliver; Medina, Oscar; Sawyer, Mirna Troncoso – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2021
This article provides a portrait of the challenges and promise of Latino schooling in California's agricultural Central Valley, site of one of the largest and socioeconomically vulnerable Latino populations in the nation's most populous state. Through surveys, interviews, and participant observation, we document a multi-year "Placed-Based…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Asian American Students, Filipino Americans, First Generation College Students
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Ardoin, Nicole M.; Schuh, Janel S.; Gould, Rachelle K. – Environmental Education Research, 2012
Themes of place, situatedness, and locale are increasingly prominent in environmental education literature and practice. Sense-of-place research, which considers how people connect with places and the influence of those connections on engagement with the environment, may have important implications for environmental education. Prior place studies…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Environmental Education, Models, Structural Equation Models
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