Abstract
Higher education and K-12 school partnerships are typically designed with an end-goal that serves the instructional needs of one group over the other. For this project, a university professor and elementary school instructor used problem-based and project-based learning strategies to design a curriculum that served the academic needs of both groups of students. Undergraduate students in an urban planning course partnered with elementary students from a local school to work on an interdependent civic engagement project. The partnership provided innovative, twenty-first teaching for both groups of students while also reinforcing public service.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 77-90 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Innovative Higher Education |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Keywords
- 21st century teaching
- Civic engagement
- Innovative instruction
- Partnerships
