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Place-Based Social Studies Education: Learning from Flint, Michigan

Place-Based Social Studies Education: Learning from Flint, Michigan

Whitlock, Annie McMahon
Munroe-Younis, Mona

Hardcover

Series: Research and Practice in Social Studies

General SociologyTeaching Instruction

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ISBN10: 0807769754
ISBN13: 9780807769751
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: Jan 26 2024
Pages: 192
Language: English

This book uses the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, as a touchstone for the importance and value of including place-based education in the social studies curriculum. Whitlock scrutinizes this local environmental issue to not only drive critical inquiry in the classroom, but also to show how the curriculum can propel valuable social change in the community. Each part of this book highlights critical place inquiry and place-based education with an overall inquiry question: How can schools respond to a community's needs? How can schooling be reimagined to center place? How can teacher preparation be place-based? What did we learn from the Flint crisis and where do we go from here? Individual chapters investigate the inquiry question by examining Flint and the Flint water crisis more specifically, as well as the lessons we can learn from Flint educators. Social studies teachers (pre-K-16) can use these experiences to inform their own approach to understanding their own places.

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