%0 Book
%A Bob Coulter
%D 2013
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781453913055
%T No More Robots
%B Building Kids’ Character, Competence, and Sense of Place
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-1305-5
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051468
%X This book was named a 2015 Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title.   Place-based education offers a compelling opportunity to engage students in the life of their community. More than just taking a field trip, participants in a place-based project make sustained efforts to make a difference and learn basic skills along the way. Academic concepts come to life as real-world problems are investigated from a local angle. Even global issues can be connected to the community, such as the high school in Missouri that linked local land-use choices to the «dead zone» in the Gulf of Mexico. For teachers, place-based projects offer a chance for professional revitalization as they orchestrate complex and meaningful learning environments that go well beyond scripted curriculum mandates. Both teachers and students benefit from a new level of agency as they take ownership of their work. Drawing on his own experience as a teacher and more than a decade of work supporting teachers in crafting their own projects, the author outlines the many benefits of place-based education and describes the challenges that must be overcome if we are to realize its potential.
%K global issues, benefits, challenges, opportunity, community, ownership, potential, professional revitalization
%G English