Place-Based Social Studies Education: Learning from Flint, Michigan

by Annie McMahon Whitlock

This book uses the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, as a touchstone for the importance and value of including place-based education in the social studies curriculum. Whitlock scrutinizes this local environmental issue to not only drive critical inquiry in the classroom, but also to show how the curriculum can propel valuable social change in the community. Each part of this book highlights critical place inquiry and place-based education with an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807769746
• ISBN13: 9780807769744
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 192 Pages