Place-Based Education

A "MySpace" for Local Studies in Massachusetts

Announcing the launch of a new social networking site for "humanities practitioners" in Massachusetts, built on the Ning platform. 

The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded this experiment, with additional support from the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston, and Mass. Humanities.

Check out the MAStudies Network at MAStudies.ning.com and join up if this collegial group of Commonwealth collaborators suits you!

- Place-BasedLearning

All of a Place: Connecting Schools, Youth and Community - a report from the Funders' Forum on Environment and Education, June 2001. 

What if schools, families and communities were addressed as the complex, interrelatedand interdependent social systems that they are?

The Power of Place: A grant-maker's perspective

Notes from a talk by by Katherine S. McHugh, Program Director, Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, as part of “All of a Place:  A Funder’s Institute on Connecting School, Youth, and Community.”

Link: Text of Kathy McHugh's talk

Funders' Forum on Environment and Education

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love,
We will love only what we understand,
We will understand only what we are taught."

-- Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist

This network provides funders with reliable, strategic information about best practices and emerging opportunities at the intersection of environmental fields and education.

Link: Welcome.