Place-based education. (Bits & Pieces).The Rural School and Community Trust The Rural School and Community Trust (Rural Trust) is a national nonprofit organization addressing the crucial relationship between good schools and thriving communities. Their mission is to help rural schools and communities get better together. is offering free posters that promote "place-based" education. Place-based education Place-based education, sometimes called pedagogy of place, place-based learning, experiential education, community-based education, education for sustainability, environmental education or more rarely, service learning, is an educational philosophy developed largely by Professor is the notion that schools should base teaching on the culture, history, ecology ecology, study of the relationships of organisms to their physical environment and to one another. The study of an individual organism or a single species is termed autecology; the study of groups of organisms is called synecology. and economy of the communities they serve and engage community members in the work of the school. The poster points educators to numerous online and published resources. Single copies of the poster may be requested at poster@ruraledu.org. |
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