| Description |
xi, 203 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The practitioner inquiry series |
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Practitioner inquiry series.
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| Contents |
Inviting children into community: growing readers and writers in elementary school / Sandy Bangert / Robert E. Brooke -- A geography of stories: helping secondary students come to voice through readings, people, and place / Phip Ross -- A sense of place / Sharon Bishop -- "Common threads": a writing curriculum centered in our place / Bev Wilhelm -- Being an adult in rural America: projects connecting high school students with community members / Judith K. Schafer -- What to preserve in rising city?: a community confronts the economics of school change / Amy Hottovy -- Career education: creating personal and civic futures through career discernment / Robyn A. Dalton -- Developing school/community connections: the Nebraska writing project's rural institute program / Carol MacDaniels / Robert E. Brooke -- Afterword mentoring: learning about place-conscious teaching / Marian Matthews |
| Summary |
Featuring lively essays from rural elementary and secondary teachers, this volume describes the theory and practice of place-conscious education - using one's local place to build real, lasting connections to learning. The teachers describe the development and implementation of rich classroom writing programs that link learners with their rural communities and can serve as models for both public engagement and pedagogy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index |
| Subject |
Education, Rural -- Social aspects -- United States.
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Regionalism and education -- United States.
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| Author |
Brooke, Robert, 1958-
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| LC no. |
2003042672 |
| ISBN |
0807743658 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0807743666 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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