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“We Can Do This At Our School!” Place-Based Education, Literacy, & Learning, Erica R. Hamilton, Janet Staal, Jessica Vander Ark
“We Can Do This At Our School!” Place-Based Education, Literacy, & Learning, Erica R. Hamilton, Janet Staal, Jessica Vander Ark
Michigan Reading Journal
This article highlights the power of using place-based education (PBE) in a K-8 school to support and extend students' literacy and learning. Through PBE, teachers learn to use their local places such as playgrounds, neighborhoods, parks, streams, forests, and urban centers as contexts to make connections and facilitate learning. Moreover, as seen in the examples provided throughout this article, PBE empowers teachers and students to study and read the world, integrate knowledge across disciplines, write for authentic purposes and audiences, create and share narratives connected to local places, and engage in and share research. As a result, students’ excitement for …
Hands Of The Future, Inc.: Connecting Children To Nature, Rebecca Busse
Hands Of The Future, Inc.: Connecting Children To Nature, Rebecca Busse
Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement
Rebecca Busse is the project coordinator for the Nature of Teaching Extension Program. This provides K–5 teachers with standards-based lesson plans related to wildlife, food waste, and health and wellness. She has been volunteering with Hands of the Future, Inc., for three years. In this article, she describes the organization and her experiences with it.
The Nature Of Trust And Its Impact On The Relationship Between Facilitator And Participant In An Outdoor Education Experience, T. Grant Lewis Jr.
The Nature Of Trust And Its Impact On The Relationship Between Facilitator And Participant In An Outdoor Education Experience, T. Grant Lewis Jr.
The Corinthian
This study is based on a research study that examined the concept of trust as a critical characteristic in the relationship between facilitator and participant in an outdoor education experience. Data was collected from 35 graduate and undergraduate students in an outdoor education academic program at a small university in the southeast. Participants completed a 14 question survey that combined Likert scale response items with several open-ended short answer questions. Survey questions explored the characteristics necessary for a facilitator to possess in order to create a relationship of trust with participants, as well as defining the concepts of trust and …