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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 …