Place-based learning is learning about place, in place, through place.
The Burrenbeo Trust are actively engaged in various place-based learning programmes. In light of this and in order to further strengthen the place-based learning offered by Burrenbeo Trust, the organisation is partially supporting its communications officer, Áine Bird to undertake a Masters in Education investigating this area (2015-2017).
Áine’s MA Education programme at NUI Galway deals education theory, practice, psychology and sociology and will include a minor research thesis in year 2. The course will enable Áine to draw on current scholarship and an extensive range of methodologies within the discipline of education, with a view to developing and building upon previous experience and skills in Burrenbeo Trust’s specialist area of place-based learning. The course will highlight the methods required to optimally design and deliver educational programmes within a place-based educational context.
It is hoped that a model for place-based learning in the Irish context will be developed as part of the Masters study. For more information contact aine@burrenbeo.com
Research elsewhere
The Promise of Place web site is a project of the ‘Center for Place-based Learning and Community Engagement’ in America. This is a unique public private partnership that works to advance place-based education by facilitating collaborative efforts in research, programme design, technical assistance, resource development and dissemination. The projects website has information, resources and research data on the situation of place-based education in America. See www.promiseofplace.org.
See here other research projects we are part of:
Community Wellbeing Learning Landscape Feasibility Study Burren Community Charter