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Toward Community-Based Learning contends that the ideal school offers the opportunity to understand reality in a way that connects teaching and education with conditions in the surrounding community and the student’s life and concerns. This view holds that problem solving requires an understanding and awareness of the whole, which can be achieved through direct activities. In this manner, learning is linked to its natural context, with ideal instruction being actively problem-oriented, holistic, and life-centered.
This thought-provoking volume offers an essential and comprehensive picture of community-based learning in the field of education. The book deals with the history of community-based learning as well as its present applications, including its global successes and difficulties. The authors provide numerous pedagogical approaches that are designed to meet the challenges of contemporary education. They show how learning is connected with authentic community environments in which students can gain new understandings through solving emerging problems. They also demonstrate how teachers can make learning more functional and holistic so that students have the ability to work in new situations within the complex world around them. School-specific descriptions reveal how teachers and their students have implemented community-based projects in the U.S.A., India, and China at different times.
Contributors are: Thomas L. Alsbury, Mary Ewans, Linda Hargreaves, Susan K. Johnsen, Eija Kimonen, Susan Kobashigawa, Karon N. LeCompte, Suzanne M. Nesmith, Raimo Nevalainen, and Lakia M. Scott.
This thought-provoking volume offers an essential and comprehensive picture of community-based learning in the field of education. The book deals with the history of community-based learning as well as its present applications, including its global successes and difficulties. The authors provide numerous pedagogical approaches that are designed to meet the challenges of contemporary education. They show how learning is connected with authentic community environments in which students can gain new understandings through solving emerging problems. They also demonstrate how teachers can make learning more functional and holistic so that students have the ability to work in new situations within the complex world around them. School-specific descriptions reveal how teachers and their students have implemented community-based projects in the U.S.A., India, and China at different times.
Contributors are: Thomas L. Alsbury, Mary Ewans, Linda Hargreaves, Susan K. Johnsen, Eija Kimonen, Susan Kobashigawa, Karon N. LeCompte, Suzanne M. Nesmith, Raimo Nevalainen, and Lakia M. Scott.
Price: $77.00
Pages: 274
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Urban Education, Cultures and Communities
Publication Date:
30 January 2020
ISBN: 9789004424487
Format: Paperback
"Toward Community-Based Learning reveals how educators and communities are making education meaningful for students in cultures as diverse as the U.S.A., China, and India. The authors successfully combine international research with numerous examples of community-based learning in this essential volume for educators everywhere." – Linda Hargreaves, Cambridge University, U.K.
"Toward Community-Based Learning, edited by Kimonen and Nevalainen offers a comprehensive look at education that connects teaching and learning to the communities surrounding schools. [...] An in-depth review of the literature on community-based learning is presented, including discussions that demonstrate the effects of student participation in various programs. In addition, the contributing authors share many strategies used to build community-based relationships with K–16 students and in teacher preparation programs globally, and specific examples of community-based learning experiences are embedded throughout the book. Summing Up: Recommended." - A.L. Hsu, in: CHOICE, 58 (8), 2021
"Toward Community-Based Learning, edited by Kimonen and Nevalainen offers a comprehensive look at education that connects teaching and learning to the communities surrounding schools. [...] An in-depth review of the literature on community-based learning is presented, including discussions that demonstrate the effects of student participation in various programs. In addition, the contributing authors share many strategies used to build community-based relationships with K–16 students and in teacher preparation programs globally, and specific examples of community-based learning experiences are embedded throughout the book. Summing Up: Recommended." - A.L. Hsu, in: CHOICE, 58 (8), 2021
Eija Kimonen, Ph.D. (2011), University of Jyväskylä, is Senior Researcher in the RICEI Project at that university. She has coedited and published books on reform pedagogics in the U.S.A. and India, including Education and Society in Comparative Context (Sense Publishers, 2015).
Raimo Nevalainen, Ph.Lic. (1995), University of Jyväskylä, is Researcher in the RICEI Project at that university. He has coedited books on teacher education, including Transforming Teachers' Work Globally (Sense Publishers, 2013) and Reforming Teaching and Teacher Education (Sense Publishers, 2017).
Raimo Nevalainen, Ph.Lic. (1995), University of Jyväskylä, is Researcher in the RICEI Project at that university. He has coedited books on teacher education, including Transforming Teachers' Work Globally (Sense Publishers, 2013) and Reforming Teaching and Teacher Education (Sense Publishers, 2017).