Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing / Edition 1

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Featuring lively essays from rural elementary and secondary school teachers, this volume describes the theory and practice of place-conscious education -- using one's local place to build real, lasting connections to learning. The teachers describe the development and implementation of rich classroom writing programs that link learners with their rural communities and can serve as models for both public engagement and pedagogy. The outgrowth of research led by the National Writing Project and funded in part by the Annenberg Rural Challenge.\
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780807743652
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • Publication date: 7/10/2003
  • Series: Practitioner Inquiry Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 216
  • Product dimensions: 6.12 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.54 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Place-Conscious Education, Rural Schools, and the Nebraska Writing Project's Rural Voices, Country Schools Team 1
Pt. I Place-Conscious Writing and Active Learning 21
1 Inviting Children Into Community: Growing Readers and Writers in Elementary School 23
2 A Geography of Stories: Helping Secondary Students Come to Voice Through Readings, People, and Place 44
Pt. II Place-Conscious Writing and Local Knowledge 63
3 A Sense of Place 65
4 "Common Threads": A Writing Curriculum Centered in Our Place 83
5 Being an Adult in Rural America: Projects Connecting High School Students With Community Members 102
Pt. III Place-Conscious Writing and Regional Citizenship 119
6 What to Preserve in Rising City? A Community Confronts the Economics of School Change 121
7 Career Education: Creating Personal and Civic Futures Through Career Discernment 137
8 Developing School/Community Connections: The Nebraska Writing Project's Rural Institute Program 154
Afterword: Mentoring: Learning About Place-Conscious Teaching 171
References 189
About the Editor and the Contributors 195
Index 197
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