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Place-Based Curriculum and Instruction: Outdoor and Environmental Education Approaches. ERIC Digest.
Woodhouse, Janice L.; Knapp, Clifford E. – 2000
Place-based education is a relatively new term, but progressive educators have promoted the concept for over 100 years. Place-based education usually includes conventional outdoor education and experiential methodologies as advocated by John Dewey to help students connect with their particular corner of the world. Proponents of place-based…
Descriptors: Ecology, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education