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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Publication format
Article
Parent publication type
Compendium
Article type
Other article
Audience
ScientificPeer-reviewed
Peer-ReviewedMINEDU's publication type classification code
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Parent publication name
Toward Community-Based Learning : Experiences from the U.S.A., India, and China
Parent publication editors
Kimonen, Eija; Nevalainen, Raimo
Publisher
Pages
197–257
ISSN
ISBN
Publication forum
Publication forum level
3
Open access
Open access in the publisher’s service
No
Self-archived
No
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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