Creative Place-Based Environmental Education

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

 Jorunn Barane (author), Aksel Hugo (author), Morten Clemetsen (author) 

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.

Jorunn Baranne is an educator and storyteller, who teaches Ecopreneurship at Sogn Agriculture College, Aurland. Aksel Hugo Phd is a Director at Sogn Agriculture College, Aurland. Morten Clementsen Phd lectures in rural lansdcape and planning at the Norwegian Life Sciences University.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hawthorn Press (5 Nov. 2018)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781907359736
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 1.27 x 23.5 cm