COVER -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. ENCOUNTERING SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION: Food for Thought -- INTRODUCTION -- COMMUNITY EDUCATION -- MY STORY -- SOCIAL EDUCATION -- LINKING -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- CONCLUSIONS -- 2. ESTABLISHING COMMUNITY: Our Journeys to Social Education -- INTRODUCTION -- PERSONAL STORIES - BEGINNING THE JOURNEY -- ILLUMINATING THE PATHWAYS -- EXPERIENCING THE JOURNEY -- LIVING THE EXPERIENCE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 3. CONSIDERING COMMUNITY: Exploring Interpretations and Implications for Education -- INTERPRETATIONS OF COMMUNITY -- IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION -- REFERENCES -- 4. PLACE-BASED EDUCATION: Bringing Schools and Communities Together -- RATIONALE FOR PLACE-BASED EDUCATION -- BEGINNING THE PLACE-BASED LEARNING PROJECT - FIRST STEPS -- LEARNING ABOUT TEMENOS PLACE & BREAD OF LIFE -- EVENT PLANNING -- THE EVENT -- POST EVENT & SUMMATION -- FINAL THOUGHTS -- REFERENCES -- 5. THE CLASSROOM AND PLACE-BASEDEDUCATION -- SMALL TOWN COMMUNITY IN THE URBAN SCHOOL -- COMMUNITY WITHIN THE SCHOOLS: TWO EXAMPLES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 6. AGENTS IN NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITIES -- REFERENCES -- 7. PEDAGOGY OF THE DISABLED: Building a Community of Voices -- LEAVING THE CRUTCHES BEHIND -- COMMUNITY OF EMPOWERMENT -- CONQUERING MY FEARS -- REFERENCES -- 8. ISSUES IN INTERNATIONALIZING EDUCATION: Globalizing Community -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- METHODOLOGY -- DATA SOURCES -- RESULTS -- SIGNIFICANCE -- REFERENCES -- 9. "THE WORLD IS A BIG SACK OF MYSTERY: "Students' Discussions about Multicultural Education -- THE PLACE -- THE CHALLENGE -- THE CLASS -- CRITICAL MULTICULTURALISM -- INTERPRETIVE LENS -- DIVERSITY + COMMUNITY = PLACE -- REFERENCES -- 10. PLACE-BASED EDUCATION IN ALASKAAND TEXAS -- INTRODUCTION -- INTRODUCTION TO PLACE-BASED EDUCATION.

CONTEXTUALIZING PLACE-BASED EDUCATION: NEEDS, PERSPECTIVES, AND LIMITATIONS -- THE ENVIRONMENT OF ALASKA -- ALASKAN TEACHER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM ANDPLACE-BASED EDUCATION -- LIMITATIONS OF PLACE-BASED EDUCATION -- VALUES OF ALASKA PLACE-BASED EDUCATIONIN TEXAS SCHOOLS -- MAKING PLACE-BASED EDUCATION HAPPEN -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 11. THE ART OF COMMUNITYA: Study of Project Row Houses -- THE STORY OF THIRD WARD -- A STORY OF ART BREAKING TRADITION -- Artists as Agents of Change -- Inspiring the Agents of Change -- FINER ART -- PRIDE IN A PLACE CALLED HOME -- Third Ward Home Stories -- PROGRAMS AND PRINCIPLES (LESLIE) -- Good and Relevant Architecture -- Art and Culture -- Education -- Social Safety Net -- Economic Sustainability -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 12. GLOBAL CLASSROOMS: Contextualizing the Community -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTEXTUALIZING THE GLOBAL THROUGH POPULAR CULTURE -- GLOBAL CLASSROOMS: AN INTEGRATED MODEL -- GC HOUSTON: A CASE STUDY -- EXTENSIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- LINKS, LESSONS, AND APPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 13. USING PRIMARY SOURCES TO UNDERSTAND LOCAL HISTORY: Ropesville, Texas -- INTRODUCTION -- LOCAL, PARTICULAR HISTORY CURRICULUM -- ROPESVILLE: A PEDAGOGICAL EXAMPLE -- IV. CURRICULUM AT LUBBOCK LAKE LANDMARK -- CONCLUSION -- SELECTED REFERENCES -- 14. EXPERIENCING SOCIAL EDUCATION ASCOMMUNITY -- What it Means to be a Social Educator -- The Essentials of Communal Experience -- Democratizing Education -- Experience as Essential -- REFERENCES -- 15. TEACHER EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY: Action Research and the College and Career Readiness Standards -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTEXT OF THE STUDY -- METHODOLOGY -- RESULTS -- The Faculty Perspective -- The Student Perspective -- The Student Perspective - Action Research Projects -- CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES.