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Place-Based Education

Bringing Schools and Communities Together

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Community Education for Social Justice

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This project came to be through a social education course on place-based education that we took as part of our doctoral studies. As a class we were asked to work in small groups, and as a group to develop a project that would exercise the ideas of community and place-based education.

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  1. Karen Lescure
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  2. Christina Yaman
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  1. University of Houston, Texas, USA

    Cameron White

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Lescure, K., Yaman, C. (2014). Place-Based Education. In: White, C. (eds) Community Education for Social Justice. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-506-9_4

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