Local Community: Place-Based Pragmatist and Feminist Education

The Pluralist 9 (2):29-41 (2014)
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[O]ur increasing democracy impels us to make a new demand upon the educator. … [A] code of social ethics is now insisting that (the individual) shall be a conscious member of society.[Black women] understood intellectually and intuitively the meaning of homeplace in the midst of an oppressive and dominating social reality, of homeplace as site of resistance and liberation struggle.this essay considers the role of city/community as homespace in an attempt to bring a particular place, the community of Muskegon, Michigan, into the classroom as a learning partner in a place-based educational project. Place-based education is commonly used to describe sustainability/environmental learning (Powers), but it also can ..

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Judy Whipps
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