The Power of Community-Centered Education
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Community-centered education integrates local environments and community issues to enhance students' learning experiences, diverging from traditional educational frameworks. It fosters stronger community ties, improves academic performance, and promotes civic involvement by making education relevant to students' lives and local contexts. This approach addresses the disconnect between school and real-world application, encouraging students to engage meaningfully with their surroundings.
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The Power of Community-Centered Education
- 3. Does Community-Centered Education Matter?
- 4. Department of Education knows it matters
- 5. What is community-centered education? More expansive than traditional environmental education (and with less baggage) Teaches about both the natural and the built environment How landscape, community infrastructure, watersheds, and cultural traditions interact and shape each other
- 6. The Great Waste From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school—its isolation from life. John Dewey (1891)
- 7. Crisis in the Narrative Environment
- 8. Epidemic of Disengagement Lack of “narrative fit” between the stories of schooling and students’ personal lives
- 9. Slip out of Abstraction Community-Centered education: “ the process of using the local community and environment as the starting point to teach concepts. . .” David Sobel ( Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities )
- 10. Benefits of Community-Centered Teaching Increases academic achievement Helps students develop stronger relationships to their community Enhances students’ appreciation for the natural world Creates heightened sense of civic engagement Increases citizen and parent involvement Helps community development
- 11. Engaged in the real work
- 13. Deepening by contextualizing [When] the student is in the community, researching aspects of a local watershed, conducting community health surveys, developing exhibits for the local museum, the quality of the work deepens greatly , is more carefully attended to, assumes genuine meaning. Vito Perrone: Annenberg Rural Challenge Research and Evaluation Program, 1999
- 14. The Habit of Science
- 15. Education as culture How are the understandings we seek manifest locally and regionally?
- 17. The adventure of research reading, taking notes, observing, experimenting, presenting
- 18. Community-Centered Teaching: truth in a local dialect
- 20. Linking community and scholarship
- 21. Accountability in the Community
- 22. Exhibitions of mastery and more. . .
- 23. The three-legged stool Academic achievement Social Capital Environmental quality
- 24. Placemaking
- 25. Michael L Umphrey [email_address] 406 370-4369 http://www.montanaheritageproject.org