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We face an epidemic of disengagement in American high schools as our institutions fail to offer meaningful and relevant ways to connect curriculum with students' emerging life stories. These students do not see how schooling, as it is presently constituted, is important to their own developing identities. One solution to this problem is to organize the curriculum around the concept of community and to link the study of abstract concepts and principles to their manifestations in the places that students know and care about (local history, shared traditions, civic pride, etc.). The Power of Community-Centered Education provides psychological, sociological, historical, and philosophical insights into why community works so well as an organizing principle for high school.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Philosophy & theory of education

• Full title: Power of Community-Centered Education
• Subtitle: Teaching as a Craft of Place
• Author: Michael L. Umphrey
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 164
• EAN: 9781578866502
• ISBN: 1578866502
• ID: 05085432
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 367 g
• Dimensions: 276 × 158 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. August 2007

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