Using the Community as a Classroom.

Poindexter, Mary Jo

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Publication Date: 1975

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Using the Community as a Classroom

Poindexter, Mary Jo

Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 19, 2, 91-3, Nov/Dec 75

To provide educational relevance, enable students to gain community awareness, and provide opportunities for self-discipline and individualized learning, an interdisciplinary team (Problems of Democracy, English, and Consumer Economics) in a California high school offer a one-semester course to senior high school students in which the classroom is the community. (AJ)

Descriptors: Consumer Education, Home Economics Education, Individualized Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Arts, Program Descriptions, Relevance (Education), School Community Relationship, Secondary Education, Social Studies

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Identifiers - Location: California; California (San Bernardino)

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