Place-Based Education is a vibrant approach to education that takes students into communities to learn, to do and to grow as human beings. Students learn subject matter in deep and lasting ways, understand the places they live in and participate in community renewal that makes a difference to themselves and others. By “engaging the local,” Place-Based Education presents a wide span of purpose and possibility.

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This course will provide a fundamental overview of theory and practice related to literacy learning for language minority students in the middle grades. We will explore foundations of second language literacy acquisition and learning. We will also examine the socio-cultural contexts in which the working, teaching and learning of English learners takes place.