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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Sommario
CHAPTER 1Project-Based Learning: Spilling into LifeI. Stories from the FieldII. Design Principles for ProjectsCHAPTER 2Grounding Projects in Community Life: The Search for Utmost SatisfactionI. Stories from the FieldII. Connecting Community Service and Work-Based LearningCHAPTER 3Connecting School and WorkI. New Combinations of Learning and WorkII. Making Workplaces into Learning Environments: Learning Plans and Internship ProjectsIII. Making Schoolwork More Like Real Work: Senior Projects, Field Studies, and Career ExplorationIV. Developing Common Criteria for Real Work and SchoolworkCHAPTER 4Margaret Vickers -- Working to Learn: Building Science Understandings Through Work-Based LearningI. Stories from the FieldII. Science in School: Changing the SubjectCHAPTER 5Robert C. Riordan -- Hands On, Heads Up: Uncovering the Humanities in Work-Based Learning Programs I. Hands on Humanities at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School II. Rethinking Curriculum and Pedagogy: Design Principles III. Writing and Reflection in School-to-Work Programs IV. Work-Based Learning and the Humanities Standards CHAPTER 6 Lessons from the Field I. Design Issues for Schools II. The Big Picture of High School Reform
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Future in Boston. She has 30 years of experience in the education field and is a former editor of The HarvardEducation Newsletter.
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This book demonstrates how students can embrace what they learn in the classroom and go on to use the sciences and humanities to make sense of their own outside experiences.
