Creative Place-Based Environmental Education: Children and Schools as Ecopreneurs for Change

By Jorunn Barane, Aksel Hugo, Morten Clemetsen

How can schools become creative hubs for enriching the community, for caring for nature, the landscape and place? This book presents the why, what, and how of creative place-based education as action researched successfully by educators for over 20 years in Aurland, Sognafjord Norway, and with the Life Science University nationally. This hands on approach embraces the whole locality as an inspiring educational resource. Design tools for developing place based educational curricula are made globally relevant, with case studies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907359737
• ISBN13: 9781907359736
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Hawthorn Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"