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Examining Narratives: Conversations Between Community Mentors And Pre-Service Teachers, Lorena Guillen, Kate Napolitan
Examining Narratives: Conversations Between Community Mentors And Pre-Service Teachers, Lorena Guillen, Kate Napolitan
Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice
State policy and teacher evaluation rubrics increasingly call for attention to family and community engagement. Yet teachers, schools, and families continue to face a number of obstacles preventing collaboration on all sides. Research on culturally responsive teaching, funds of knowledge, and community teaching have identified a number of concrete principles and practices for educators to partner with families and communities. However, teacher education programs continue to struggle in crafting authentic experiences for pre-service teachers to partner with families and communities. This study examines regionally-based, small group discussions– which, were part of a larger programmatic set of experiences–between preservice teachers and …
Blending Community And Content Through Place-Based Science, Terri Hebert, Judith L. Lewandowski
Blending Community And Content Through Place-Based Science, Terri Hebert, Judith L. Lewandowski
Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice
Place-based education connects the learner to the local environment through diverse strategies that increase awareness and connectedness to the community, and ultimately to the world (Sobel, 2004). Constructivist principles of learning – the belief that individuals “construct their own knowledge by engaging in the learning process, interacting and collaborating with teachers and other students, reflecting on the content, and meaningfully integrating the new information with prior knowledge” (Sowan & Jenkins, 2013, p. 316) – run deep within place-based education as the learner constructs meaning through personal interactions with the local environment. In other words, the “landscape shapes [one’s] mindscape” (Haas …