{"id":4151,"date":"2010-11-09t15:15:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-09t21:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15t10:57:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15t15:57:40","slug":"place-based-and-project-based-learning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/guides-sub-pages\/place-based-and-project-based-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"place-based and project-based learning (archived)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">this teaching guide has been retired. visit our revised guide on this topic, <\/span><a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/authentic-resources\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><a title=\"community engaged teaching step by step\" href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/\/cft\/teaching-guides\/teaching-through-community-engagement\/community-engaged-teaching-step-by-step\/\">community engaged teaching step by step<\/a><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a name=\"place\"><\/a><\/strong>teaching towards sustainability lends itself to place-based and project-based approaches to pedagogy.\u00a0 although sustainability is a global goal, its problems and solutions are always importantly situated in local ecologies and communities.\u00a0 instructors might consider taking a \u201cbioregional\u201d approach to teaching about place, encouraging students to think about their local watershed as a meaningful way to conceptualize community.\u00a0 in addition, focusing on sustainability solutions requires the cultivation of an imaginative experimentalism \u2013 the difficulties involved in transitioning to a more sustainable world can only be worked out in the process of formulating practical alternatives to the problems at hand.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>field trips<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>field trips bring people together in ways that go beyond traditional classroom experiences.\u00a0 planning the logistical details of a field trip take time and foresight, but the rewards of a well-planned field experience can make it worth the effort.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be sensitive to time and place; it is impossible to plan for every contingency, but keep in mind the variability of seasonal weather.<\/li>\n<li>don\u2019t plan every minute of the trip.\u00a0 create time for observation and \u201cpoking around.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>create solo time \u2013 consider having students bring a journal; offer the option of a reflective writing assignment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>campus as sustainability classroom<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>encourage students to think of the campus as a sustainability laboratory.\u00a0 assign projects that allow students to create solutions to sustainability issues they identify in their own dormitories and dining halls. get in touch with your campus sustainability coordinator to brainstorm projects and to help connect students with existing campus resources and organizations.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>classroom and community<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>there is an important relationship between the university and the larger community of which it is a part.\u00a0 teaching about sustainability is, in large part, a civic education.\u00a0 instructors can encourage students to see not only their campus, but also the city and countryside in which it is located, as a sustainability classroom.\u00a0 assign projects that help students to map and engage with sustainability issues and initiatives in the community.\u00a0 consider assigning students to attend a city council meeting and write a response.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the cft has a <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/teaching-guides\/teaching-through-community-engagement\/\">teaching guide on service learning<\/a> for instructors considering incorporating action research and community engagement into their courses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this teaching guide has been retired. visit our revised guide on this topic, community engaged teaching step by step teaching towards sustainability lends itself to place-based and project-based approaches to pedagogy.\u00a0 although sustainability is a global goal, its problems and solutions are always importantly situated in local ecologies and communities.\u00a0 instructors might consider taking a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"parent":18232,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4151"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29647,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4151\/revisions\/29647"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}