Micki Evans & Charity Marcella Moran 
Place-Based Learning [EPUB ebook] 
Connecting Inquiry, Community, and Culture (Seven place-based learning design principles to promote equity for all students)

Understand the impact a sense of place has on education, culture, and community. The authors share seven place-based learning design principles to help educators implement projects smoothly, from start to finish. With their project-planning tools and community asset map, teachers, school coaches, and leaders will be equipped to empower students and promote equity for all.

Grades 4–12 teachers, Iinstructional designers and school leaders will:

• Learn the seven place-based learning design principles and apply them


• Understand what role maps and countermapping have in establishing a sense of place and how to map community’s assets


• Build meaningful community partnerships with students using collaborative projects


• Empower students to confront inequitable societal structures


• Reflect on key takeaways and consider chapter-ending questions to further their place-based learning practice

Contents:

Foreword by Lisa Delpit

Introduction

Part One: Understand Place-Based Learning Design Principles

Chapter 1: Elevate Ways of Knowing

Chapter 2: Facilitate Purpose-Driven Inquiry

Chapter 3: Build Authentic Community Partnerships

Chapter 4: Empower Student Ownership

Chapter 5: Engage in Feedback, Revision, and Reflection

Chapter 6: Create an Authentic Community Product

Chapter 7: Embed Culture in Teaching and Learning

Part Two: Designing Place-Based Journeys

Chapter 8: Liberate Teaching Practices and Decolonize Curricula

Chapter 9: Unpack Biases and Assumptions and Uncover Community Assets

Chapter 10: Pathways to Liberatory and Decolonized Assessment Practices

Chapter 11: Plan Place-Based Learning Projects

Part 3: Supporting and Sustaining PBL Implementation With an Equity Lens

Chapter 12: Sustain Place-Based Learning Through the Practitioner’s Round

Chapter 13: Dismantle the Barriers to Place-Based Learning

Chapter 14: Monitor and Assess the Efficacy of Place-Based Learning and Build Capacity

Epilogue

Appendix

References and Resources

Index