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Place Based Education by David Sobel
Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities, by David Sobel, is being used all over Nevada to introduce environmental educators, teachers, administrators, agencies, and organizations to the concepts of this approach to environmental education and to make a difference in local communities. We highly recommend you get your own copy and join in the adventure!
Sobel builds a definition by providing examples of PBL in the classroom and the community, highlighting places where PBL has made a real difference in learning and in the quality of life in communities.
“After a century of educating young people to be mobile, rootless, and autistic toward their places, better ideas are gaining steam. David Sobel’s book is about a revolution in education that is connecting students to their neighborhoods, communities, and ecologies, and equipping them to be homecomers, stewards, citizens and more. It is about joining heads, hands, hearts, and the places in which we might dwell with competent affection.” – David Orr, Author of Ecological Literacy and Earth in Mind
Copies are also available from The Orion Society at https://secure.oriononline.org/orionsoc/shop/showitem.cfm?Itemnum=nls-PBE.
