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

"Whitlock scrutinizes the Flint water crisis to drive critical inquiry in the classroom, and to show how the curriculum can propel social change. It offers key "takeaways" to help educators apply place-based education in Pre-K-16 classrooms"--

About the author

Annie McMahon Whitlock is an associate professor of history and social studies at Grand Valley State University, and a former middle school social studies teacher. She previously worked as an education professor at the University of Michigan-Flint.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wayne Journell, Annie McMahon Whitlock
• Assisted by: Wayne Journell (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2024
• EAN: 9780807769744
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6974-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Research and Practice in Socia; Research and Practice in Social Studies Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology