Creative Place-Based Environmental Education
Children and Schools as Ecopreneurs for Change
Published on 7. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-907359-73-6 (ISBN)
Description
How can schools become creative hubs for enriching the community, for caring for nature, the landscape and place? This book presents the why, what, and how of creative place-based education as action researched successfully by educators for over 20 years in Aurland, Sognafjord Norway, and with the Life Science University nationally. This hands on approach embraces the whole locality as an inspiring educational resource. Design tools for developing place based educational curricula are made globally relevant, with case studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-907359-73-6 (9781907359736)
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Persons
Jorunn Barane, educator, storyteller teaches Ecopreneurship at Sogn Jord- og Hagebruksskule (Sogn school of organic agriculture and horticulture) in Aurland, Norway.