Engaged Institutions: Impacting the Lives of Vulnerable Youth through Place-Based Learning.

Institution	Rural School and Community Trust, Washington, DC.
Titel	Engaged Institutions: Impacting the Lives of Vulnerable Youth through Place-Based Learning.
Quelle	(2003), (97 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	American Indian Education; Black Education; Case Studies; College School Cooperation; Community Development; Cultural Maintenance; Disadvantaged Youth; Educational Change; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Hispanic Americans; Partnerships in Education; Place Based Education; Rural Education; Rural Schools; School Community Relationship; Student Motivation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Community; Development; Entwicklung; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Schulische Motivation
Abstract	Six case studies examine the connections between higher education institutions and schools that have chosen place-based education as a framework for student learning and community growth. Through such partnerships, Lubec (Maine) high school has established a vocational aquaculture program in an effort to revitalize the struggling local fishing economy. Five rural Mississippi Delta school districts are raising academic skills and cultural pride through the writing process. The Navajo Nation is reclaiming its culture and developing and retaining native Navajo language-speaking teachers. Hispanic communities in northern New Mexico are focusing on water use and conservation. Twenty-nine school districts in Virginia and Kentucky are engaging students in media projects that address issues confronting central Appalachia. In Missouri, 10-15 rural school districts are working to increase teacher supply and retention. Findings indicate that the engagement of higher education institutions is usually limited to one or two impassioned faculty members in one or two departments or in a separately-created entity in the university. Place-based learning provides a focused and structured means for higher education institutions to impact the lives of vulnerable youth. Place-based learning can engage vulnerable youth in rigorous academics and increase their civic consciousness and participation. While university engagement with communities changes some faculty members' lives, institutional change is harder to effect. Community engagement appears easier for community colleges than universities. Recommendations for enabling institutional engagement are presented. (TD)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://www.ruraledu.org/docs/kellogg/kellogg.pdf/.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01