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Blending Place-Based Education and C3WP in Rural Nebraska: A Focus on Civil Discourse

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Author: Robert Brooke, Melissa Legate

Summary: This episode in the 4-part series on place-conscious education by the Nebraska Writing Project illustrates how a place-conscious focus can blend with the C3WP emphasis on civic engagement and understanding issues from multiple perspectives.


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This podcast focuses on Melissa Legate’s pedagogical work to blend a place-based study of rural population decline with the College, Career, and Community Writing Program’s focus on writing from multiple perspectives and nuanced claims.

This project is offered as an example of the place-conscious principle of creating active citizens in the local community. Legate explains a “text set” developed from local newspapers on rural decline in her area and her 9th grade students’ response to the writing from that study. She goes on to describe the class follow-up final research project to investigate multiple points of view in a local issue, focusing on one student’s project on Willow Lake Recreation Area outside of town and the many reasons for seasonal algae blooms there.

Podcasters:

    • Dr. Robert Brooke, Director, Nebraska Writing Project
    • Melissa Legate, Secondary English teacher at Pierce Public Schools, and Nebraska Writing Project Co-Director

Related Resources

  • Basics of Place-Conscious Education: The Nebraska Experience
  • We Are All Immigrants
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