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Toward Learning in the Community : Insights from the U.S.A., India, and China

Year of publication

2020

Authors

Kimonen, Eija; Nevalainen, Raimo

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to examine the changing nature of the pedagogical activities of community-based learning and their authentic learning environments in the United States, India, and China. This analysis, based on a previous historico-hermeneutical study in comparative education, concentrates particularly on the activities of community-based learning and their central pedagogical approaches in a context of social change. With respect to the United States, the primary focus is on experiential education, while in India it is on vocationally productive education, and in China it is on productive labor education. This chapter demonstrates that community-based learning can take place in a variety of learning environments prioritizing the Naturalistic, Sociocultural, Productive, Economic, Martial, Ecological, or Scientific-Technical Dimensions, in accordance with the general direction of political, economic, and social development. The chapter shows that by the mid-20th century these three countries had started to focus efforts on expanding learning environments from schools to the real world outside of schools. In the past five decades, pedagogical approaches and their learning environments have increasingly given special importance to the use of technology-based applications. The study concludes that approaches to community-based learning could provide a way for teachers and communities to prepare students to participate and become engaged in solving local problems.
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Organizations and authors

University of Jyväskylä

Kimonen Eija

Nevalainen Raimo

Publication type

Publication format

Article

Parent publication type

Compendium

Article type

Other article

Audience

Scientific

Peer-reviewed

Peer-Reviewed

MINEDU's publication type classification code

A3 Book section, Chapters in research books

Publication channel information

Parent publication editors

Kimonen, Eija; Nevalainen, Raimo

Publisher

Brill

Pages

197–257

​Publication forum

5158

​Publication forum level

3

Open access

Open access in the publisher’s service

No

Self-archived

No

Other information

Fields of science

Sociology; Educational sciences

Keywords

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Publication country

Netherlands

Internationality of the publisher

International

Language

English

International co-publication

No

Co-publication with a company

No

DOI

10.1163/9789004424494_006

The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection

Yes