Overview
The Community Education for Social Justice text provides a broader conception of community education as a thematic/critical approach in our schools through a global perspective.
It also offers fresh examples and case studies of community education projects.
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Table of contents(15 chapters)
About this book
The concept of community education brings many ideas and issues to mind. Related themes include place-based, field-based, environmental, service learning, and outdoor education. Each has its own more narrow focus with community education perhaps an umbrella term than encompasses them all. Nevertheless, the suggestion here is that instead of community education serving as an extension or add-on to traditional approaches, it should be the focus of all education.
What is often missing in teaching and learning are contexts and connections than make education meaningful. Community education engages participants in problem and issues-based approaches to the local community, thereby facilitating that local to global link. Instead of compartmentalized subjects, integrated approaches use what students and the community know or understand to develop further questions, solutions, or even problems. Community education offers efficacy in that it provides opportunities for collaboration in addressing local issues and problems. It enables the community to become the classroom, thus ensuring a more long-term connection to active rather than passive endeavors as citizens.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Houston, Texas, USA
Cameron White
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community Education for Social Justice
Editors: Cameron White
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-506-9
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-506-9Published: 05 February 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 144
Topics: Education, general